holy shit it isn’t
the global order is changing
I mean, a lot of this is just countries hating US more than hating China
Like Canada is China favored but I bet that just means they have less negative views towards them
I wonder how the question was worded. Hard to see NZ putting aside the terminal Sinophobia even when our petit-boug class relies on Chinese entirely.
The one where the gang breaks up
Looks at Vietnam
Lol
I’ll simply disregard that data and not incorporate it into my worldview
Probably a combination of manufacturing opportunities for the export market for Vietnam, easing of sanctions, and the border skirmishes/war with China being more recent.
A lot of Americans retired to Vietnam, so I wonder how much that influences Vietnam policy?
Doubt much. Its mostly just nationalism due to the chinese control over Vietnam and the recent sino-vietnamese war. Even during soviet times, national conflicts didnt disappear.
Hmmm I have more reading to do. Thank you.
I know this is a bit of a generalization but the equivalent of historical antisemitism in south & east asia is anti-chinese rhetoric, especially with the whole merchant culture & spreading communism tropes. Not to accuse vietnam of being that way, but other countries in the region have a history with that.
Chinese immigrants were often targeted in anti-communist pogroms in SE Asia, especially in Indonesia.
Yeah during malayan emergency as well, and the khmer rouge targeted the chinese and vietnamese communities especially due to these tropes.
Not to mention global West stirring the pot, tossing in some poison, periodically, with a Julia Child’s sized few splashes of Western freedom fighters.
Could be, turns the question a bit more into a representation of the Americans they interact with instead of their feelings on the American state.
lmao even
Based on my time on rednote, there is some very bad blood between the Chinese and Vietnamese, which is a damn shame to see as a Western leftist who has great respect for both nation’s projects
As opposed to between Americans and Vietnamese…
Americans murdered millions of Vietnamese in a naked colonial war of aggression. They need to get their fucking priorities straight, this is a massive failure of the government and an insult to those people’s memory
Trump really fucked up one thing America had going for it: yeah its a pit of snakes with nuclear arms but its a reliable pit.
Now that he’s playing hot potato with the wheel and careening all over we lost the reliability.
Now we’re just a hole in the ground full of assholes. Duplicitous shady side talking assholes. Whoops.
Exactly, the promise of stability was the one thing that the US still had going for it.
Per the poll, 76 countries out of 96 surveyed held a more positive view of China
worth highlighting this part of the article because it means over 100 countries were not polled, so the results are probably less harsh on the US than they could be lol
Looking at the map, the missing countries are mostly western Europe and a big chunk of Asia. So they would likely be pretty similar or maybe even slightly less positive towards China. I still can’t imagine it pulling back to favouring the USA, though. And really, between BRI and American warmongering, I’m amazed that even Americans could be surprised by this…
Huh? There’s like one country missing in Europe.
The nations missing are the AES nations in Africa (pro-China), Russia (pro-China), Iran (pro-China)( DPRK (pro-China). It basically omits all the “bad” countries, the actual global results would be overwhelmingly damning for America by a massive margin. 80% of the population of Earth is outside the “walled garden” of the West
Oh shit I’m blind haha
This will be very difficult for Americans to understand when they’ve only been told made up shit about the horrors of China.
Anytime these polls/studies are done and you share them with other Americans, they will bend over backwards to explain why these surveys are wrong.
“They only asked people about the US government, not the people.”
“That was the previous administration. Things are different now.”
“They’re just jealous we’re the best country in the world.”
“The surveyors just hate America and fumbled the data.”
“China is bribing them. Soon, they’ll find out why they were wrong to trust the CCP.”
I’ve heard and seen all of these excuses out in the wild.
