Washington [US], October 1 (ANI): Global opinion of China, beneath Chairman Xi Jinping, has shifted and grow to be extra destructive, based on a Washington-based suppose tank.
Multiple components have affected views of China over time in a number of international locations, together with the US, South Korea, Japan and Australia.
The Pew Research Center analysis says the sense that China has dealt with COVID-19 poorly and is at fault for the virus’s unfold definitely is expounded to destructive opinions of the superpower, however isn’t the one issue driving attitudes. “Rather, negative views of China were already rising prior to the pandemic,” it says.
President Xi Jinping – who’s prone to safe the third time period on the twentieth National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Beijing on October 16 – can be seen fairly negatively.
“Xi has been in power in China for the past decade, one marked by global feats like building an international space station, hosting the 2022 Winter Olympics and pouring billions of dollars into international infrastructure through the ambitious Belt and Road Initiative,” the examine says.
But his tenure has additionally concerned controversial island building and militarization within the South China Sea, widespread protests in Hong Kong and human rights abuses in opposition to Uyghurs, in addition to a centralization of energy and elevation of himself not seen since Chairman Mao Zedong, based on Pew.
Views of President Xi Jinping – which had been already fairly destructive in 2014, nearly a yr after he took workplace – have grow to be more and more destructive lately.
According to the survey, the sense that China’s energy and affect on the world stage is rising is each widespread and long-held. As of this yr, a median of 66 per cent throughout 19 international locations say that China’s affect on this planet has just lately been getting stronger, together with seven-in-ten or extra in Australia, Italy, Israel, Greece and the Netherlands.
On the human rights entrance, China has lengthy been seen to have a problematic human rights report notably in superior economies.
In the U.S., Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan and each European nation surveyed, a majority has constantly mentioned that the Chinese authorities doesn’t respect the private freedoms of its folks for the reason that query was first requested in 2008.
“The places where people are particularly concerned about China’s involvement in their domestic politics; or China’s neighbours, which are particularly concerned about China’s military; or places that view China’s human rights as a particular problem tend to have more negative views of China,” Laura Silver, co-author of the report and senior researcher on the Pew Research Center, informed VOA Mandarin. (ANI)