Poll: China Image Scores Better Than U.S.

[RoadClosed]

Swordfish, Interesting article and the chart surprised me. Britain chose China. I wonder what other countries would say? Like South Korea, Taiwan, Nepal, Vietnam, Tailand, Loas. I know some of those are scared shitless of China. Other countries that border China are Islamic countries. That would be interesting as well. America verus <insert country here>.

[SwordFish_13]

Hi,


Well We all Love Cheap Chinese (Junk) Stuff Don't we j/k

One of the regional Counterweight of China is India ............ Both are the Two Fastest Growing economies in the world ......... China the fastest growing economy and India the Second fastest.......... Both have Huge Millitaries .......... china has the Biggest Armed Forve in the World and India has Arguably the Second largest Armed force......... And both are Quickly Modernising their Armed Forces ........ they see it as a way of Showing their Donimant Status.

Some of the Countries you mentiones Such as Nepal , Bhutan , Maldives and Sri Lanka Come Under India's Defence Cover so they don't really have to be scared shitless of China really .

China in the past Invaded 3 countries India, Viatnam and Indonasia .......There is Suspicion But China-India and China-indonesia relations are Improving Fast apart form a few unsolved Border disputes.

China is Developing very rapidly both economically and Millitarily ......Everobody sems to Like them economically ........... it's their Millitary Growth that's Threatning a few.

One More Pie Chart China's influence seen positive .........

Source:BBC News

China's influence on the world is seen as positive by more people than is the case for the US or Russia, according to a new BBC World Service poll.

In total, 48% of people polled in 22 countries said China's role was mainly positive. Only 30% saw it as mainly negative.

The majority of respondents were also positive about the communist nation's growing economic power.

But far fewer people wanted to see an increase in its military might.

Even in neighbouring Asian countries, which have historically been suspicious of China's dominance, opinions were relatively benign.

An exception was Japan, where only 22% of people polled said China had a mainly positive influence.

Most Japanese respondents expressed no opinion, with only 25% saying China's role was negative.

Click here to see a table of the results

The survey of 22,953 people was conducted for the BBC World Service by the polling organisation GlobeScan, together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (Pipa) at the University of Maryland.

Steven Kull, director of Pipa, said: "It is quite remarkable that with its growing economic power, China is viewed as so benign, especially by its Asian neighbours."

"However, this cordial view... does appear to depend on China restraining itself from seeking to convert its burgeoning economic power into a threatening military presence."

Economic growth

In 17 of the 22 nations polled, more people thought China had a positive influence than a negative influence.

China came out favourably when the results were compared with similar questions looking at the global influence of Russia and the US.

An average of 38% of respondents saw the US as having a positive influence, with just 36% saying the same for Russia.

Indeed China, at 48%, is almost on a par with Great Britain, which scored 50%.

China's growing economic power is also seen as positive in the majority of nations polled.

Even in Mexico - whose manufacturers are often in direct competition with those in China - 54% of people polled were positive about China's economic rise.

But China's growing military might appears to be a less welcome aspect of its increasing global standing.

Only 24% of respondents said a rise in China's military power was a positive development, while 59% said it was negative.

Among the most concerned nations were Australia, Japan and the US, as well as many European nations.

The EU is currently considering lifting its embargo on arms sales to China.

A BBC correspondent in Beijing, Tony Cheng, says China has rarely felt the need to look beyond its borders for reassurance in the past.

But China is opening up. Widespread use of the internet and expansion of the mass media have brought the rest of the world into ordinary people's homes for the first time.

According to our correspondent, there is therefore an increasing concern about how the country is perceived, with Chinese citizens aware that progress will only come if they engage with the rest of the global community.

Peace

[RoadClosed]

China was going to attack Taiwan, the evil US talked them out of it. I remember in circa 1996 (who can say Clinton) the Chinese threatened daily missile attacks at Taiwan. We pledged to go to their aid, sort of... (evil bastards). As for Nepal... After Tibet was invaded and a few hundred thousand killed during the invasion and uprisings, I bet Nepal was scared shitless once twice over the past few decades.

Well We all Love Cheap Chinese (Junk) Stuff Don't we j/k

LOL, well if there is a duplicate item on the shelf that is a buck or few more and made somewhere else, I buy it. I love asian style though. So buying a rice bowl or wok or paper lantern is difficult to find without the "Made in China" label. Alas, many times the ONLY option is Chinese.

[Evil Moo]

I take alot of resentment towards the US with a grain of salt. For the most part, I'd say in just about every case where someone criticizes the US for something, their country has/is even worse policys and practices than those that they repremand. Hell, alot of people dont' even really have legitimate reasons for hating the US. Mommy and daddy hate the US, or Joe Public Speaker says he hates the US, so I should to. It's always vogue to rebel against the establishment. Ironically, you'd think that would make people hate the UN, but it only goes to show whom actually does anything within the UN....

It may sound alittle naive, but I'm not all that worried about China. Communism never took root in the US because the citizens of the USA already had "stuff". China's success has been supplying their citizens with more and more "stuff". Possession of personal property will be the spark that lights the fire of revolution against the establishment in China I think. It's still some distance off in the future, but equally distant to the time when the US will really have to start fearing China.