Negative views of China remain near an all-time high in many of the 19 countries recently surveyed by Pew Research Center, largely due to its record on human rights.
A median of 68% of people recently surveyed said they had an unfavorable view of the nation, Pew said in a statement dated Wednesday. Perceptions of China were the worst in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, Australia and Sweden, where at least four-fifths of respondents expressed negative perceptions.
A median of 79% of people said China’s human rights policies posed a serious problem, and some 45% said they had no confidence in President Xi Jinping, who has led the world’s No. 2 economy for the past decade and is likely to get a third term in charge at a Communist Party congress later this year. A separate Pew poll of 17 nations found that confidence in President Joe Biden to handle international affairs fell over the past year in all but South Korea.