China's Increasing Unpopularity Within the West

A new poll by the Pew Research Center paints a dim picture of China's popularity in Western nations, whereas views of the United States have either remained constant or improved over the past decade. In the U.S., the percentage of the population viewing China favorably has declined down to just 38 percent in 2015, while those seeing China as unfavorable has increased from 35 percent in 2005 to 54 percent today. Similar trends in China's unfavorability rating during the last ten years are clear for the United Kingdom (16 percent to 37 percent), Canada (27 percent to 48 percent), Germany (37 percent to 60 percent), Japan (71 percent to 89 percent), and Spain (21 percent to 50 percent).