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> China is now seen as a more positive influence than the US. It’s the first time this has been the case during the ten years we have tracked this question. Acr
by whynotmaybe 1y ago
> China is now seen as a more positive influence than the US. It’s the first time this has been the case during the ten years we have tracked this question. Across the 29 countries covered, an average of 49% say China will have positive effect on world affairs, up 10 points on six months ago.
That's the real change.
The drop of America is consistent with it's president behaviour towards its allies, but it's still surprising that it's so intense that now China seems better for the world than it was a few months ago, even though nothing really changed.
- pixelpoet 1y ago> even though nothing really changed Rocking the world's financial markets and disappearing people is nothing? I honestly don't know how to process such an opinion...
- dvdhnt 1y ago[flagged]
- soco 1y agoThey probably meant that nothing has changed on the Chinese side to make them suddenly 10% more trustworthy.
- whynotmaybe 1y agoExactly what I should have written.
- ZeroGravitas 1y agoThey did get to respond publicly to the trade war threats against them and seem to be doing pretty well in supporting the global rules based order as part of that. Worth a couple of points at least.
- karmakurtisaani 1y agoI think people tend to think in relative rather than absolute terms here. US going unpredictable makes China seem relatively better, which doesn't translate so well on some absolute scale. Possibly a better poll would be to arrange the countries in order of trustworthiness etc.
- gaoryrt 1y agoThey said no to the US about the tariff war.
- throwaway5752 1y ago"even though nothing really changed." I have seen estimates that dissolving USAID has caused 10,000 excess deaths, so far. They threatened three countries with military invasion. They placed real punitive tariffs on most of the world besides Russia. They began abducting legal foreign residents and sending some to a foreign prison camp, and not complying with legal orders to return them. They are responsible for a surge of detained foreign visitors at the border in prison like conditions, sometimes with limited access to their embassies. They disavowed NATO, saying Europe would have to be responsible for its own security. I could go on, but China is in fact a more reliable and a more responsible world actor than the US now.
- dvdhnt 1y ago[flagged]
- whynotmaybe 1y agoNothing has changed for China and they're now reliable thanks to USA's actions.
- palata 1y agoChina is not openly and repeatedly threatening to invade its allies militarily. And I say "allies", but at this point it's rather "partners". And those ex-allies wish they did not depend so much on the US.
- p3rls 1y agoChina has only one ally, North Korea. Singular. A real dream team of human flourishing.
- palata 1y agoAre you trying to say that it's better to have an "ally" that threatens to invade you than having a "partner" that doesn't?
- DeH40 1y agoIn fact, China pursues a policy of non-alignment, so it has no allies
- p3rls 1y agoHope this helps, idiot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Friendship,_Cooperation_and_Mutual_Assistance_between_China_and_the_DPRK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_Friendship,_Cooperat...
- gaoryrt 1y agoIsn't Pakistan considered an ally?
- p3rls 1y ago[flagged]
- AlexeyBelov 1y agoAre you.. are you using h1b as a slur?
- BergAndCo 1y ago[dead]