Posted on 07/27/2008 7:37:55 PM PDT by CarrotAndStick
WASHINGTON: Chinese people are confident about their nation’s place on the world stage but a poll highlights "significant tensions" between China and other rival powers, including India with 24% viewing New Delhi as an "enemy".
Overwhelmingly, the Chinese think their country is popular abroad with roughly three-in-four (77%) believing people in other countries generally have favourable opinions of China.
However, the 2008 survey by the Pew Research Centre’s Pew Global Attitudes Project highlights significant tensions between China and other rival powers.
Views about India are "mixed at best" with 25% viewing India as a partner, while a similar number 24% describe it as an enemy, it said. Chinese view Japan with hostility. Views toward Japan are especially negative 69% have an unfavourable opinion of the country. Almost 38% of Chinese consider Japan an enemy.
Opinions of the United States also tend to be negative, and 34% describe the US as an enemy, while just 13% say it is a partner of China, the survey showed.
Most Chinese also recognise the growing impact their economy has on others around the world, and they believe it is a positive impact. Only 3% of Chinese think their economy is hurting other countries. As they eagerly await the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese people express extraordinary levels of satisfaction with the way things are going in their country and with their nation’s economy.
And who says propaganda doesn’t work in this day and age...
Red China is certainly our enemy.
Hell, lots of Russians still hate us because of what was taught by the USSR, and this is after the fortune we spent trying to rebuild their economy.
Hell, 34% of Americans (the Rats) think the US is the enemy.
Still ticked off about the embassy thing..and the pilot they lost when he smacked into the Aries....
Just give it time and our socialist government schools will top theirs in indoctrinated ignorance and agenda-driven hate.
“Overwhelmingly, the Chinese think their country is popular abroad with roughly three-in-four (77%) believing people in other countries generally have favourable opinions of China.”
Thank you communist propaganda taught at communist schools.
And the world thinks WE’RE arrogant. At least we’re realistic about being liked, while the Chinese are obviously still into opium.
China is a scourge upon the earth.
I trust this poll even less than the ones done in the US. I looked for methodological details in the article, but found none. So I’m wondering, how does one gather a representative sample in an economically and socially diverse nation like China? For example, would results differ across categories of urbanicity or socioeconomic status?
It may be that 30 or so percent of Chinese consider the US an “enemy.” That the number is so low seems like good news to me. At this point, I don’t consider China a competitor or adversary, not an “enemy.”
“Overwhelmingly, the Chinese think their country is popular abroad with roughly three-in-four (77%) believing people in other countries generally have favourable opinions of China.”
LMAO.....the ChiComs (and their agents) are deluded fools.
Not enough Americans consider China an enemy that’s for sure.
The Chinese have many fine qualities, but humility in terms of “national pride” is not one of them.
LOL! Good One.
Unfortunately it isn’t a joke. A large percentage of democrats think of the US as the enemy.
Right you are.
Chi-coms would bury us if they could.
Works for me....(U.S. citizen/MSM consumer)
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