{"id":2267,"date":"2026-07-16T08:58:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=2267"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:58:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T08:58:53","slug":"china-charms-world-now-more-popular-than-us-xi-tops-trump-on-trust-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/?p=2267","title":{"rendered":"China charms world, now more popular than US; Xi tops Trump on trust: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-132429432,imgsize-135354,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/trump-and-xi.jpg\" alt=\"China charms world, now more popular than US; Xi tops Trump on trust: Report\" title=\"More countries report higher confidence in China's Xi Jinping than in US President Donald Trump.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"Ta7d_ img_cptn\"><span title=\"More countries report higher confidence in China's Xi Jinping than in US President Donald Trump.\">More countries report higher confidence in China&#8217;s Xi Jinping than in US President Donald Trump.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>China is now viewed more positively than the US in most of the 36 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in early 2026, with similar patterns seen in views of their leaders, <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/xi-jinping\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xi Jinping<\/a>.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/>Pew\u2019s latest global poll of 42,151 adults in 36 countries and territories, conducted between February 8 and May 13, 2026, finds that favorable views of China have reached record highs in many places, while perceptions of the US have worsened. In 25 of the 36 countries, more people say they have a favorable view of China than of the US, marking the first time Pew has recorded such a result in so many countries since it began tracking these attitudes in 2002.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US China favourable opinion chart\" msid=\"132434137\" width=\"\" title=\"Only six countries still view the US more positively than China: Poland, the Philippines, South Korea, India, Japan and Israel.\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-132434137\/us-china-favourable-opinion-chart.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Only six countries still view the US more positively than China: Poland, the Philippines, South Korea, India, Japan and Israel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Respondents were asked whether they held a very favourable, somewhat favourable, somewhat unfavourable or very unfavourable opinion of each superpower.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"13\"\/>Spain, Indonesia, Italy, Greece and Canada are among the countries that have seen the starkest swings toward China, with Canada and Mexico now viewing China more positively than their close neighbor, the US.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"15\"\/>Only six countries still view the US more positively than China: Poland, the Philippines, South Korea, India, Japan and Israel, all of them longstanding US partners or allies.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Separately, Pew\u2019s broader trend data show that the median favorable opinion of the US across many countries has declined in recent years, while the median favorable opinion of China has risen.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>Pew\u2019s findings show that middle\u2011income countries generally tend to have more positive views of China, while wealthier countries are more skeptical. Some of the most positive ratings for China come from Asia\u2011Pacific and developing nations, including Pakistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria and Turkey, where favorable views have reached new highs.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>At the same time, some high\u2011income countries in Europe and the Asia\u2011Pacific remain more negative toward China, even though their views of the US have also cooled. Singapore stands out as a notable exception: it has one of the highest GDPs per capita among the surveyed countries yet maintains a high level of positivity toward China.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Comparing Trump and Xi<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>The survey also compares confidence in US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to \u201cdo the right thing\u201d in world affairs, finding low overall confidence in both men.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Xi vs Trump\" msid=\"132433763\" width=\"\" title=\"In most countries, confidence scores for both leaders are below 50%\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-132433763\/xi-vs-trump.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In most countries, confidence scores for both leaders are below 50%<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In most countries, confidence scores for both leaders are below 50%, indicating widespread skepticism of their international decision\u2011making.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"32\"\/>Despite this, more countries report higher confidence in Xi than in Trump.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"34\"\/>In 22 of the 36 countries and territories surveyed, views of Xi are more favorable than views of Trump, including in Canada, Mexico and major European powers like France, Germany and the United Kingdom, though Xi\u2019s ratings rarely reach majority levels. <!-- -->Xi\u2019s highest confidence rating in the survey comes from Pakistan, at around 83%, while Japan records the lowest, at about 7%.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"38\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US China\" msid=\"132433891\" width=\"\" title=\"Views of China have turned more positive with 46% of people surveyed now saying they have a favourable view of the nation. \" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-132433891\/us-china.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Views of China have turned more positive with 46% of people surveyed now saying they have a favourable view of the nation. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s ratings show a similar pattern of extremes.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"41\"\/>His highest rating in the Pew polling is 68% in the Philippines, while one of the lowest measurements is just 4% in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. In several countries, especially in Europe, neither leader enjoys majority\u2011positive ratings, but Xi still tends to lead Trump by double\u2011digit margins.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"44\"\/>Researchers note that many respondents do not have particularly strong or well\u2011formed views of Xi compared with their opinions of other leaders. In contrast, people are more likely to express views on Trump\u2014and to choose more extreme positive or negative positions\u2014reflecting his high profile and polarising image.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"46\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Personal freedoms: US still ahead, gap narrowing<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>One area where the US continues to be rated more positively than China is respect for personal freedoms.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"50\"\/>For more than a decade, Pew has asked whether people believe the US and Chinese governments respect the personal freedoms of their citizens, and the US has consistently scored higher.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"52\"\/>However, the gap has been shrinking sharply since the question was last asked in 2021.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"54\"\/>Across nearly every country surveyed, fewer people now say the US government respects personal freedoms than did so five years ago, with declines of 25 percentage points or more in countries such as Sweden, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, South Korea and Spain.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"57\"\/>At the same time, modest increases in the share who say China respects personal freedoms have been recorded in several countries, including Australia, contributing to the narrowing divide.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"59\"\/>In Mexico, around a third (35%) say the Chinese government respects its people\u2019s personal freedoms, while only 20% say the same about the US government.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"61\"\/>A few countries show especially large contrasts: 80% of Israelis say the US respects the freedoms of its people, compared with just 15% who say the same of China, while Japan reports a similarly wide gap of 61% versus 6%.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"64\"\/><\/p>\n<p><h2>Foreign interference &amp; reliability<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p>Pew also explored perceptions of the two powers\u2019 foreign policy roles, including in several Latin American and middle\u2011income countries. In these places, the public previously tended to see the US as a more reliable partner than China, but recent results suggest views are now split, with no clear consensus.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"67\"\/><\/p>\n<div data-pos=\"0\" class=\"id-r-component iIpbx undefined  &#10;        \">\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"US China comparison\" msid=\"132433740\" width=\"\" title=\"The public previously tended to see the US as a more reliable partner than China, but recent results suggest views are now split, with no clear consensus.\" placeholdersrc=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/83033472.cms\" imgsize=\"\" resizemode=\"4\" offsetvertical=\"0\" placeholdermsid=\"47529300\" type=\"thumb\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/photo\/msid-132433740\/us-china-comparison.jpg\" data-api-prerender=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The public previously tended to see the US as a more reliable partner than China, but recent results suggest views are now split, with no clear consensus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>When asked about interference in other countries\u2019 affairs, a median of 75% of respondents say the US interferes \u201ca great deal\u201d or \u201ca fair amount\u201d in other nations, compared with 45% who say the same about China.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"71\"\/>This indicates that while China is being viewed more favorably overall in many countries, the United States continues to be perceived as the more interventionist power.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"73\"\/>Other global polling backs the Pew findings. Gallup reports that China has recently surpassed the US in global leadership approval ratings, with the widest gap in China\u2019s favour recorded in nearly two decades, driven by declining approval of US leadership and modest gains for China.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"77\"\/>Together, these surveys show a significant shift in how the public see the US and China and how they compare Trump and Xi, with China and its leader now often rated more positively than the US and its president, even as confidence in both remains limited.<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/us\/us-and-world\/china-charms-world-now-more-popular-than-us-xi-tops-trump-on-trust-report\/articleshow\/132428634.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More countries report higher confidence in China&#8217;s Xi Jinping than in US President Donald Trump. China is now viewed more positively than the US in most of the 36 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in early 2026, with similar patterns seen in views of their leaders, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.Pew\u2019s latest global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-31"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-small":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-small-tall":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-small-square":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-small-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-medium":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-medium-masonry":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-large":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg","blogsy-wide":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"More countries report higher confidence in China&#8217;s Xi Jinping than in US President Donald Trump. China is now viewed more positively than the US in most of the 36 countries surveyed by the Pew Research Center in early 2026, with similar patterns seen in views of their leaders, Donald Trump and Xi Jinping.Pew\u2019s latest global [&hellip;]","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":5,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":6,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg",400,225,false],"medium":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg",300,169,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/trump-and-xi.jpg",150,84,false]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/author\/admin"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/8709732a479614e7a8aa24d3eb1b239f30dc6d90c61464ed495001e7a469d856?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-31\">\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36 \u0b2c\u0b3f\u0b26\u0b47\u0b36<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/koshalsambada.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}