People like the Belt and Road Initiative better than drone strikes and wealth extraction?
I'm shocked.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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This result is quite an achievement with the immense global soft power of US cultural institutions like Hollywood buoying it up.
What do you like most, being kicked in the balls or being hit in the balls with some object?
Hmmmm... they made liking China red and liking the US green.. hmmm call me crazy guys but there might be a bias in this source
That isn't blue?
I swear I thought that this was red and blue.
Is this another dress situation?
It's teal
From an org with ex-NATO chief Rasmussen in the board? Nah, completely neutral!
...is in fact teal, or as...
We Indians despise the Chinese. Seriously others underestimate how much we hate them. Not to mention they keep trying to steal our borders
To be fair most of my discussions with Indians in Australia, you guys hate all your neighbours. Even other Indians if they're from the wrong state
That would make sense considering that all of their neighbours were originally part of India before it was India and split off because of disagreements of some sort.
You aren't wrong lol but China is in that special group for us which constitutes Pakistan, and now Bangladesh is interested in joining that group for some reason of no fault of our own
Everyone hates horrible hindutva fascists killing minorities.
Nobody even knows about them at the global level
Unfortunately, most people are politically ignorant and at best know what goes on in their country.
I, as a European do follow geopolitics, sooner or later it will have consequences.
No country is an island in that sense.
I mean I don't like them as well but that said not sure how this is pertinent to the original thread lol?
It's a reaction to that indian displaying his fanatic hate.
Indonesia has entered the chat.
Don't hate the people; hate the state ✌️
More like "which country do you dislike slightly less". None of them are in the positives, it is just a choice between two evils.
The caption below the graph in the image states that is how you should interpret the results in some places:
The map compares the popularity of the U.S. and China in each country based on their net perception score (measured as the difference between the share of respondents with a positive perception minus those with a negative perception of each country.) The country with the higher net score is relatively more popular, or less unpopular.
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Didn't read the linked article when i first saw this post, some more interesting (though not surprising) results from the poll:
Trump recorded the worst score among a range of political, cultural and spiritual leaders that includes X owner Elon Musk, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the late Pope Francis, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.
Israel emerged as the country with the worst global reputation of those included in the poll, especially in the Middle East and South Asia. Israel is unpopular even in European countries that have historically been its allies, such as Germany, signaling growing discomfort with its government’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank.
yet we germans are still happy enough to sign new weapon export deals to Israel. As long as the money flows, who cares for human right violations en masse, amirite?
I dislike countries with backwards religion that tries to oppress women and certain groups.
And the US, atm.
(/am in the US)
They're the same thing.
No need for that "and", it's redundant.
Source: 2025 Democracy Perception Index
Dear Americans, think about this one. If you can.
- Canada
Just like to point out for everyone else that, at least when it comes to Canada, the US vs China is a Last vs Second Last situation. Opinions on China haven't improved, the US has just fallen that far.
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