{"id":269886,"date":"2025-07-15T11:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T15:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/?p=269886"},"modified":"2026-03-26T08:11:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:11:58","slug":"international-views-of-china-turn-slightly-more-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/global\/2025\/07\/15\/international-views-of-china-turn-slightly-more-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"International Views of China Turn Slightly More Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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People walk through a shopping area in a historic neighborhood of Beijing on Oct. 3, 2024. (Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
How we did this<\/summary>\n

This Pew Research Center analysis focuses on public opinion of China in 25 countries across the Asia-Pacific region, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East-North Africa region, North America and sub-Saharan Africa. Views of China, its president and its role in the world are examined in the context of long-term trend data.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For non-U.S. data, this analysis draws on nationally representative surveys of 28,333 adults conducted from Jan. 8 to April 26, 2025. All surveys were conducted over the phone with adults in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Korea, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Surveys were conducted face-to-face in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. In Australia, we used a mixed-mode probability-based online panel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the United States, we surveyed 3,605 U.S. adults from March 24 to 30, 2025. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center\u2019s American Trends Panel (ATP), a group of people recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses who have agreed to take surveys regularly. This kind of recruitment gives nearly all U.S. adults a chance of selection. Surveys were conducted either online or by telephone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP\u2019s methodology<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We conducted simultaneous telephone and face-to-face surveys in Hungary and Poland in 2024. Data in our 2024 reports was from the face-to-face survey. The 2024 data in this report comes from the telephone survey for direct comparison to our 2025 telephone data. For this reason, 2024 data for Hungary and Poland may not match earlier reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the\u00a0questions\u00a0used<\/a> for this analysis, along with responses, and\u00a0the survey methodology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n

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What is a median?<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

In this analysis, median scores are used to help readers see overall patterns in the data. The median percentage is the middle number in a list of all percentages sorted from highest to lowest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The share of people with a favorable view of China has increased since last year in 15 of the 25 countries Pew Research Center surveyed this spring. In most of these countries, this is the first time since 2020 that views of China have turned more positive. After the COVID-19 pandemic began, opinions of China in some places reached\u00a0historic or near-historic lows<\/a>\u00a0in survey data going back nearly two decades.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Confidence in Chinese President Xi Jinping to do the right thing regarding world affairs has also increased in many countries surveyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite these changes, views of China and Xi remain broadly negative:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n