China sees slight uptick in global popularity while views of the U.S. sour, survey finds

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Open this photo in gallery: Per-country polling showed that China’s efforts to build support in developing countries is working.Go Nakamura/Reuters International views of China have improved in over a dozen countries – for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began – at the same time as the popularity of the United States has suffered under President Donald Trump, according to the Pew Research Center. In its latest annual survey of 25 countries, Pew said that while a majority of respondents still had an unfavourable opinion of China, that figure has fallen by seven points to 54 per cent, with...