BBC Poll: U.S. Greater Threat Than Terrorism

A new BBC poll finds that 52% of BBC viewers worldwide said the US and globalisation was the most serious threat Globalisation and the U.S. poses a more serious threat to the world than war and terrorism.

The British poll also found that worries about corruption came second on a list of the biggest problems facing the world.

Conflicts - war and terrorism - ranked third, with 50%, followed by hunger, 49%, and climate change with 44%.

The BBC found that respondents from Europe, Asia, North and South America, the Middle East, Africa and Australasia, ranked the power of the US and large corporations as the biggest worry (52.3%).

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