Washington-based Pew Research Centre finds improved global view of China as Donald Trump hurts perceptions of the United States

https://abc.net.au/news/2025-07-16/pew-research-shows-global-view-of-china-improves-as-us-worsens/105536860

22 comments

  1. China is having the best six months it could possibly imagine.

    Brand America has been completely trashed around the globe, while China looks amazing by just being…you know…normal.

  2. Objectively, Trump has burned what good will the United States had accumulated throughout the decades since the end of WW2. In spite of some fairly ugly stuff along the way, the US was generally looked at being beneficent throughout much of the world.

    That’s gone, along with agencies and programs designed to cement America’s reputation and implementation of soft power that have been dismantled.

    Trump has given China a golden opportunity to fill the void. He couldn’t have done a better job if they were paying him to make it easier for China.

  4. I am from the EU, and hate communists with a real passion. The information in this article is true.

  5. It’s almost like the cavalcade of dipshits pumping up the literally worst possible sack of shit to be the face of their nation for the last decade would result in the downfall of their nation in regard to global standing. Whoda thunk it?!?

  6. Of course. Our American leadership ejected by half our stupid people pretty much gave up all that used to be great about us.

    Everyone else is better. We’re screwed.

  7. I like how research is done ( mind you in a lot of countries ) – about obvious subject lol
    Everyone unhappy about tarrifs, public voicing their displeasure and then : 
    Super duper fancy university research shows everyone is unhappy about tarrifs 

  9. Putin and Xi couldn’t have orchestrated the collapse of American goodwill and positive branding if they paid that orange buffoon malignant narcissistic sociopathic grifter which of course we know they did. As others have said, this damage will last for decades. All the goodwill that was built on trillions of dollars of aid for famine relief, national disasters, democracy building, etc.has been thrown out the window. People will long remember Donald Trump and his horrible 15 years of disasters.

  10. The CCP can just lean back and enjoy the show. The sheer number of ways of damaging the US the Trump administration has so far come up with is just astonishing

  11. Like a drunk person fighting a paper bag at this point; yelling “TARIFF” and “Crooked Hillary” verbatim

  12. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see how this crass..12 other negative adjectives, has embarrassed or country.

  13. Its not surprising. Unless youre in the sphere of influence where China is immediately seeking control (so Taiwan, possibly Japan, Korea and southeast asia), China isnt a threat to your sovereignty.

    China is a threat to US dominance which is really only a direct concern to the US.

    China has spent decades building up an image of a stable and reasonable nation but for a long time struggled to wield the soft power that the US was backed by. That has changed drastically in the last decade, with Trump’s chaotic policy, abrasive self and pullouts from the global community leaving a perfect seat open for China to move in.

    Xi was right when he said that China has been around for thousands of years and will outlast Trump and anyone else.

    The long term damage that MAGA has caused the US has most likely irreparably damaged the United States. One term could be seen as a mistake. Every democracy elects a dud on occasion. But the fact we put him back and he has been allowed to make as big of a mess as he has in 6 months means that no one will ever trust the US again because theyre at most 4 years from another Trump coming in and tearing up diplomacy.

  15. Then trump was successful in his mission given by xi?
    Wtf is he trying to do?

  17. China government are still bullies. But they offer stability and relative, if very still far too limited, freedom. They need to protect and care for the environment before I’m onboard though. 

  18. I have an improved view of China since Trump and his buds took office, and I live in Oklahoma.

  20. Nothing could have helped the “Belts and Roads initiative” more than the US burning all their bridges themselves

  21. I’m gonna be honest even with polls like this I’m sceptical that china will ever reach the heights that the US have, the same poll highlights how the world still largely skews negatively towards them, and has been a fairly consistent mindset towards the country for a long time in a lot of places. Obviously the US has self sabotaged to a huge degree, but I’m not convinced that we’re going to see a Chinese world order anytime soon

  22. >The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

    – Sun Tzu

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