If you look at opinion polls, there was no single shared turning point across countries: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-chin

If you look at opinion polls, there was no single shared turning point across countries: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-views-of-china-reach-historic-highs-in-many-countries/pg_2020-10-06_global-views-china_0-01/ https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2020/10/06/unfavorable-vi... Opinions got extremely negative from 2019 to 2020 most likely because of the pandemic, but if you look at longer time spans, the curves for each country are very different, and some had very negative views long before the pandemic.