While it broods over China’s economic, military and technical advance, the Trump administration is accelerating Beijing’s diplomatic progress, as striking new polling by the Pew Research Center shows. For the first time, China and Xi Jinping are seen more favourably than the US and its president in most of the 36 major countries surveyed – including Canada, Mexico and Australia. Only in six countries did people rate the US more highly.

While Beijing has seen significant improvements in some places, the slump in Washington’s standing is more dramatic. Across 20 countries, the median percentage with a favourable view of China rose from 32% to 46% between 2023 and this year; for the US, it fell from 58% to 36%.

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      7 days ago

      Did you bother reading the report? It’s literally all speculation, with photographic evidence such as “they built a prison” and “something happened to a remote mosque”. You are minimising real genocides by speculating that China is somehow committing a genocide that nobody is able to actually evidence.

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      7 days ago

      That’s nowhere near the level of Evil that America has activelly supported in Gaza.

      (Basically, it’s forcefully integrating Uyghurs and erasing their culture vs widespread violent state sanctioned racism, mass murdering hundreds of thousands along ethnic lines and activelly targetting and murdering children)

      Were you trying to make the case that people supporting China over America is supporting the Lesser Evil?

      Because, if you were, well done!