![]() ![]() jobs to China (by 24 percentage points) and the U.S. Republicans are also more likely than Democrats to describe most issues in the bilateral relationship as very serious problems for the U.S., including the loss of U.S. They are also more likely to support limiting the ability of Chinese students to study in the U.S. – rather than as competitor or partner – and to have very cold feelings toward China. should get tougher on China on economic issues (instead of trying to strengthen economic relations), to describe China as an enemy of the U.S. Republicans are significantly more likely to say the U.S. Many other issues related to China are also quite divided across party lines. Partisans are also worlds apart on this issue: 83% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have confidence in Biden to deal effectively with China, compared with only 19% of Republicans and Republican leaners. This is fewer than say they have confidence in him to handle any of the other foreign policy issues asked about on the survey. While 60% of Americans have confidence in Biden to do the right thing regarding world affairs in general, when it comes to dealing effectively with China, only 53% say they have confidence in him. Only 15% have confidence in Xi to do the right thing regarding world affairs, whereas 82% do not – including 43% who have no confidence in him at all. President Joe Biden has inherited a complicated U.S.-China relationship that includes a trade war, mutually imposed sanctions on high-ranking officials, tensions flaring over human rights issues, Hong Kong and Taiwan, and an American public with deeply negative feelings toward China.Īs President Biden seeks to navigate this tumultuous relationship, few Americans put much stock in his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping. ![]() Here are the questions used for the report, along with responses and survey methodology. For more on this particular question, see “ In their own words: What Americans think about China.” Please share the first things that come to mind when you think about China.” To analyze this question, we hand-coded 2,010 responses using a researcher-developed codebook. We also draw on an open-ended question: “We’d like to learn a little bit about what you think about when you think about China. favorability toward China, see “ What different survey modes and question types can tell us about Americans’ views of China.”) (For details on this shift and what it means for key measures of U.S. As a result, some long-standing trends may not appear in this report and others will indicate the shift in mode in the text and graphics, as appropriate. While Pew Research Center has been tracking attitudes toward China since 2005, prior to 2020, most of this work was done using nationally representative phone surveys. adult population by gender, race, ethnicity, partisan affiliation, education and other categories. ![]() The survey is weighted to be representative of the U.S. Everyone who took part in this survey is a member of the Center’s American Trends Panel (ATP), an online survey panel that is recruited through national, random sampling of residential addresses. For this analysis, we surveyed 2,596 U.S. Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand American views toward China. ![]()
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