According to surveys conducted by two veteran U.S. public opinion organizations, Americans’ dislike of the Chinese Communist Party is at an all-Time low, surpassing that of the June Fourth Incident.
According to the latest polls conducted by two veteran public opinion organizations in the United States, Americans’ favorable view of the Chinese Communist Party has dropped to a record low. According to the Pew Research Center poll, nearly 90 percent (89%) of Americans view the CCP as a “competitor” or “enemy”. More than 80 percent (82%) of Americans do not believe Xi Jinping can properly handle international affairs.
The Pew Research Center, a U.S. think tank, released a new poll on March 4, conducted between Feb. 1 and Feb. 7. The poll shows that nearly 90 percent (89 percent) of Americans view China as a “competitor” or “enemy” rather than a “partner.
Americans’ confidence in Xi Jinping has also declined further. More than 80 percent (82%) of Americans have “low confidence” or “no confidence” in Xi Jinping’s ability to handle international affairs correctly, and only 15 percent believe he can handle international affairs correctly.
Only 9 percent of Americans consider the Chinese Communist Party a “partner” of the United States, and one-third of Americans and most Republicans view China (the Communist Party) as an enemy of the United States, according to the survey results.
Dr. Laura Silver, a senior fellow at the Pew Research Center, told Voice of America that 48 percent of respondents believe curbing the influence of the CCP should be the highest priority in U.S. foreign policy, compared to 32 percent in a similar poll in 2018.
Silver said the percentage of Americans with a negative impression of the CCP in the poll was virtually unchanged from last March’s poll, remaining at around 75 percent. Nearly 70 percent (67%) of Americans feel “lukewarm” about China, up 21 percentage points from 46% in 2018.
By age, Americans over 65 (49%) are more likely to view the CCP as an enemy than young adults aged 18 to 29 (20%); by race, white (42%) respondents are more likely to view the CCP as an enemy compared to black (12%) or Hispanic (21%) respondents.
There is a wide bipartisan gap in views, with 53% of Republicans and 20% of Democrats viewing the CCP as an enemy. 72% of Republicans and 37% of Democrats believe that “getting tough” with the CCP first is a priority over strengthening economic ties with it.
And Republicans (72%) and Democrats (69%) agree that the U.S. should promote the CCP’s human rights even at the expense of economic ties.
In addition, a new Gallup poll released on March 1 shows that 79% of Americans surveyed have a negative view of the CCP. Only 20 percent had a favorable view of the CCP, the lowest since Gallup began polling in 1979, even after the Tiananmen Square incident in June 1989, when an August poll showed that 34 percent of Americans surveyed still had a favorable view of the CCP.
The poll also showed that 60 percent of respondents expect the new Biden administration to achieve positive results on the diplomatic front, but when it comes to China, only 53 percent of Americans believe President Biden will be able to implement these policies, despite the fact that he has prescribed a series of strategies on China.
And among the 18 countries listed in the Gallup poll, Americans have the highest favorable ratings for Canada, the United Kingdom and France, with 92%, 91% and 87%, respectively. Americans jumped to No. 8 in favor of Taiwan, with 72 percent of respondents having a favorable view of the country.
Americans have the lowest favorable feelings toward North Korea, Iraq and the Chinese Communist Party. Respondents with favorable feelings toward these three countries accounted for 11 percent, 13 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Some U.S. media analysis says Americans’ unprecedented disgust with the CCP is due to its concealment of epidemics, war-wolf diplomacy, human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet, and aggressive territorial disputes such as the India-China border and the South China Sea, which have sparked growing international outrage.
And Americans’ skepticism of Biden’s China issues largely reflects their high level of distrust of Xi, with only 15 percent of Americans trusting him to “do the right thing” on global affairs.
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