{"id":9455,"date":"2020-10-06T10:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-06T15:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/negative-views-of-both-us-and-china-amid-covid-19\/"},"modified":"2024-04-13T23:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T04:44:18","slug":"negative-views-of-both-us-and-china-amid-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2020\/10\/06\/negative-views-of-both-us-and-china-amid-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Negative views of both U.S. and China abound across advanced economies amid COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump at a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka in June 2019. (Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Negative views of the United States and China have soared in many countries over the past year. In most of 14 advanced economies surveyed between June and August 2020, unfavorable views of both countries are at or near historic highs in Pew Research Center\u2019s decade or more of polling on the issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Few in the countries surveyed have confidence in the leader of either the U.S. or China, and many are critical of how both countries have handled the coronavirus outbreak<\/a>. On most measures included in the survey, people are even more critical of the U.S. than of China \u2013 though more still have favorable opinions of the U.S. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are four key findings comparing the two countries\u2019 global image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>