China’s negative assessment of the world has increased significantly over the last year. The world news agency reported on Tuesday with reference to a survey by the American agency Pew Research Center. In none of the 14 countries surveyed does China’s positive assessment outweigh the negative one.
According to survey for the last year of reputation China most worsened in Australia. In the island nation, the negative rating increased from 57 percent to 81 percent in one year. 15 percent of people in Australia have a positive opinion of China. According to the survey, negative ratings have also risen sharply this year in Britain, from 55 to 74 percent, in Germany (from 56 to 71 percent) and in the United States (from 60 to 73 percent).
They have the worst opinion of China The Japanese: only nine percent of them have a positive opinion of their continental neighbor, 86 percent rate China negatively. On the contrary, the countries in southern Europe show the most positive attitude towards China: in Italy, China is positively assessed by 38 percent of respondents, while in Spain it is 36 percent.
Chinese President Xi Jinping also has a bad reputation. 78 percent of respondents have little or no trust in him. Distrust of China’s head of state has grown the most in the United States, from last year’s 50 percent to 77 percent this year. Xi Jinping has the worst reputation with its neighbors, Japan (84 percent) and South Korea (83 percent). In the ranking of world leaders, Xi Jinping is in the penultimate position, more people do not trust only US President Donald Trump (89 percent of negative reactions).
China’s reputation in the world has not been enhanced by the way the country has responded to the coronavirus pandemic. According to 61 percent of respondents from all 14 countries, China took a bad attitude towards it, compared to 37 percent of respondents. Only the United States had a worse rating in the research, with 84 percent of people considering its approach negative.
The Pew Research Center survey was conducted in Europe (Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden), North America (Canada and the USA) and the Pacific (Australia, Japan and South Korea). In each country, the survey was conducted from June 10 to August 3 on a representative sample of 1,000 or more people. The statistical error varies between three and four percent, depending on the country.
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