Posted on 07/22/2026 10:20:47 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Global views of the United States worsened last year as President Donald Trump’s second term began, though most people still had a more positive opinion of the U.S. than China. This year, that is no longer the case.
Views of China have improved in recent years while opinions of the U.S. have worsened, to the point where China is now seen more positively than the U.S. in most of 36 countries surveyed.
Confidence in these countries’ respective leaders to do the right thing regarding world affairs has followed a similar pattern. In the latter half of Joe Biden’s presidency, confidence in him was higher than confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping across most countries surveyed, though Biden’s rating declined in many places from 2023 to 2024.
During the first two years of Trump’s second term, ratings of the U.S. president worsened significantly. While many people still lack confidence in Xi, positive views of him have become more widespread, and more overall now say they have confidence in Xi than in Trump.
One area where the U.S. still gets higher ratings than China has to do with personal freedoms: More say the U.S. government respects the personal freedoms of its people than say the same of the Chinese government. Still, the gap has been narrowing – driven by large drops in the shares saying the U.S. government respects personal freedoms.
As China and the U.S. compete for influence around the world, we also examined how people in six Latin American countries see their foreign policy roles. People in these nations previously tended to see the U.S. as a more reliable partner than China,
(Excerpt) Read more at pewresearch.org ...
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China created a virus that killed MILLIONS worldwide but they knew that people are idiots and will still buy their made in china junk regardless, they were laughing while they made the virus, they knew
Send a kidney. The politboro thanks you.
Pee-u.
“Ideological Elite
The only people in China who can publish criticisms of, or opinions contrary to those of, the Communist Party, are senior members of the Communist Party. One example of this group is Li Rui, a retired senior Communist Party official and former aide to Mao Zedong, who earlier this year published a letter in the Beijing magazine “China Chronicle” calling for greater democracy in China’s government”...
https://www.cecc.gov/freedom-of-expression-in-china-a-privilege-not-a-right
The very stupid of the world showing how really stupid they are
Now do how many people from those countries illegally immigrate to CHYna as opposed to America.
This would be a better line of attack if we didn't know now that the U.S. funded that research, and actually outsourced it because Fauci was trying to get around the Obama admin's moratorium and eventual new guidelines intended to restrict gain of function research. Then after it happened the U.S. government engaged on the side of obfuscating the origin because of our direct involvement.
Sure, yeah, considering the massive amount of time and money the CCP spends on paid influencers on social media and YouTube. They fly them everywhere, give them sizable pay (actually bribes) to promote Chinese innovation and freedom. Heck, they even set them up with women if their men and cheap plastic surgery if they’re women. Visit any facebook page operated by a newspaper in any Asian or Western country and you’ll find tons of Pro-China articles and massive numbers of comments supporting the CCP and attacking anyone that says otherwise. Usually be providing fake stats.
Its all a show. Unfortunately most humans are too stupid to see that.
The rest of the world only knows what the media tells them, and all of the media available in all other countries HATE TRUMP HATE TRUMP HATE TRUMP TRUMP IS HITLER TRUMP IS SATAN. The poll simply reflects the GIGO effect of worldwide media.
RE: China created a virus that killed MILLIONS worldwide
We should be careful with this. The USA INITIATED the gain of function research ( Under Fauci ) and then OUTSOURCED the research to Wuhan in China. The US government bureaucracy is not entirely blameless.
Left wing media protects left wing dictators. Just like the NYT protected Stalin.
PU...
Chinese propaganda is working. It continues to imprison dissidents of all stripes. But most people today define “freedom” as license to sin and slavery to their appetites, so they are fine with locking up Christians and political dissidents, suppressing speech and engaging in censorship, just so long as they can view their porn and have their abortions and get free stuff from their government at someone else’s expense.
Suckers. Enjoy being slaves to the Celestials.
This would explain all those millions of people pouring illegally into China every year, just seeking a better life. The truth of the one matches the truth of the other.
I guess that’s why all the people from those countries want to live in China and not move to America lol
Why is it that Muslim lead countries have greater respect for China than the US? Sounds like 100% BS Propaganda to me!
Do they not know that China killed at least 80 million of its own people? Of course not, their media lied to them.
The US funded it because Fauci was behind it as well. The Dem party knew about it and Fauci told China when to release it. Everyone knows what do people vote on, the economy is always the #1 issue, so they wanted to destroy the US economy in order to get rid of Trump. No one was paying attention back then, it was about the bogus impeachment hearings, so perfect opportunity to release covid worldwide which eventually ended up here. Notice what was the first thing the Dems did when Covid came to the US, they passed a bill mandating mail in ballot voting, that was their priority NOTHING else, why, I think we all know
And we should care about this why?
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