Poll in China shows sharp decline in US

supportof the Chinese fell to record levels in recent years.At the same time, Chinese citizens continue to have a positive attitude towards most European countries.

The majority of respondents in CHINA view the United States "unfavorably" or "very unfavorably", while the share of supporters of the United States has fallen to a record 23%, writes the South China Morning Post, citing a survey by the Journal of Current China Affairs.

The authors conducted a survey among 2083 Chinese respondents, during which they asked them to determine their attitudes towards the United States and nine European countries. They were offered four options from "very favorable" to "very unfavorable".

The poll showed that the vast majority of Chinese spoke "unfavorably" towards the US, with 43% of them speaking "very unfavorably." Only 23% of the respondents were "very" or "somewhat" positive.

At the same time, respondents spoke favorably about almost all European countries: the UK was an exception, which was rated positively by only 46% of respondents. Germany, on the other hand, was the most popular country in the survey with 69% positive feedback. “Perhaps the low popularity of Britain in China was due to the fact that the UK was a close ally of the US in putting pressure on China on a number of contentious issues,” the authors of the study note.

The experts also noted the sharp divergence of Chinese views on European countries and the United States, despite the fact that "these countries are usually grouped together as the 'West' in mainstream English and Chinese discourses."

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Tensions between China and the US have persisted for several years. When Donald Trump was President of the United States , Washington stepped up sanctions pressure on Beijing. In August of this year, Taiwan became an irritant in relations between the two countries: Speaker of the US House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi flew to the island, whose independence Beijing does not recognize. China considered her arrival an interference in the internal affairs of the state. A few days before the visit, Xi Jinping warned US President Joe Biden that anyone who "plays with fire will get burned" and expressed his intention to protect the country's territorial integrity. 

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At the same time, Xi Jinping has repeatedly said that China and the United States are responsible for world stability. He called security and peace "the most precious treasure" of mankind and noted that the United States and China, "as permanent members of the UN Security Council and the two largest economies in the world, should not only direct Sino-American relations in the right direction, but also take their due international responsibility and to make efforts for the peace and tranquility of the world”.