The most concerning finding for the People's Republic may not be the world's mixed opinions, but the fact that net changes in perception skewed downward between 2018 and 2019.
Pew researchers asked more than 38,000 people across the globe to share their feelings towards the country with the world's largest population and second-largest economy. Responses were gathered between May 13 and October 2.
Indonesia, Canada, and Sweden all saw both the largest change in opinion since last year and the biggest drop, with favorable opinions of China falling 17 percentage points. The U.S. and Australia both expressed 12 percentage point decreases in pro-China views. By contrast, the countries with the biggest opinion shifts in China's favor were Israel and Poland, where favorable responses increased by 11 percentage points from 2018 to 2019.
In reporting the increase in anti-China sentiment in North America, Pew pointed to its previous reporting on increased tension surrounding the U.S.-China trade war, which began in July 2018."Americans also increasingly see China as a threat. Around a quarter of Americans name China as the country or group that poses the greatest threat to the U.S. in the future, twice as many as said the same in 2007," Pew reported in August.
Russia was the most pro-China state globally with a 71 percent approval rating, following a 6 percentage point increase since 2018. Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the tightening of connections between the two countries at the opening of a new transnational gas pipeline on December 2."That step brings the Russian-Chinese strategic partnership in the energy sector to a whole new level," he said, according to TASS news agency.
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