Recent surveys have shown that World Leaders have come to view Xi’s China as an untrustworthy partner seeking ill gain even in defiance of other states’ laws. From China Digital Times on the results of the survey, “around half or more in every country but Tunisia said China’s power and influence posed either a major or minor threat.”
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Surveys Show Xi’s Hardline Foreign Policy Increasingly Unpopular Among Western and Developed Countries – chinadigitaltimes.net
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A series of recent surveys shows how Chinese diplomacy in the era of Xi Jinping has soured attitudes toward China in many developed countries. At the same time, Chinese officials are doubling down on their foreign policy approach while attempting to revise the global security order to entrench the CCP’s hold on power. At the Pew Research Center, Laura Silver, Christine Huang, and Laura Clancy published a report titled “How Global Public Opinion Has Shifted in the Xi Era,” documenting “precipitously more negative” perspectives on Xi and China’s global influence:
The sense that China’s power and influence on the world stage is growing is both widespread and long-held. As of this year, a median of 66% across 19 countries say that China’s influence in the world has recently been getting stronger, including seven-in-ten or more in Australia, Italy, Israel, Greece and the Netherlands. Few – a median of 12% – say China’s influence has gotten weaker. In…
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