International views of China a little more positive in 2025

How we did that

This analysis of the Pew Research Center focuses on the public opinion of China in 25 countries in the Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America region, the North America, North America and Africa south of the Sahara. The views of China, its president and his role in the world are examined in the context of long -term trend data.

For non-I-data, this analysis is based on nationally representative surveys of 28,333 adults, which were carried out from January 8 to April 26, 2025. All surveys were carried out by phone with adults in Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland, South Koreen, Spain, swaths, swaths and United Kingdomy. Surveys were carried out in face in Argentina, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Israel, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, South Africa and Turkey. In Australia we used an online panel based on mixed fashion probability.

In the United States, we interviewed 3,605 US -growing people from March 24th to 30th, 2025. Anyone who participated in this survey is a member of the American Trends Panel (ATP) of the center, a group of people who have been set up by national, random samples of residential addresses who have agreed to regularly take over surveys. This type of recruitment gives almost all adults in the USA the chance of a selection. Surveys were carried out either online or by phone with a live interviewer. The survey is weighted in order to be representative of the US -growing population through gender, breed, ethnicity, partisanity, education and other categories. Read more about the ATP methodology.

We carried out simultaneous telephone and personal surveys in Hungary and Poland in 2024. The data in our 2024 reported came from the personal survey. The 2024 data in this report come from the telephone survey to receive a direct comparison to our telephone data from 2025. For this reason, 2024 data for Hungary and Poland cannot match previous reports.

Here are the questions used for this analysis as well as the answers and the survey method.

The proportion of people with a favorable view of China has increased in 15 of the 25 countries Pew Research Center surveyed this spring. In most of these countries, this is the first time in 2020 that China's views have become more positive. After the beginning of the Covid 19 pandemic, China's opinions reached historical or almost historical lows in survey data in some places that went back to almost two decades.

Trust in the Chinese President Xi Jinping to do the right thing about world affairs has also increased in many countries surveyed.

Despite these changes, Views of China and XI remain largely negative:

• A median of 36% of adults in the 25 countries examined has a favorable view of China, while 54% have an unfavorable view.
• A median of 25% has confidence in XI compared to 66% that have little or no trust in it.

While the overall opinion is negative, the views of China and XI vary significantly in the examined countries. China and his president receive much more positive notes in the nine countries surveyed with medium -sized incomes than in the 16 with high incomes.

Jump to Chapter 3 More information about the views of China and XI in countries with medium -sized incomes.

Although the views of China and XI have improved in most surveyed countries since last year, the opposite applies to the United States and President Donald Trump. Today the international views of the two superpowers and their leaders are closer than since 2020.

Related: The views of the United States have deteriorated while Chinese opinions have improved in many countries

Against this background, more people see China worldwide than the leading economic power of the world, compared to when we asked it in 2023. Today, a median of 41% of adults in the examined countries of China see the world's leading economy, while approximately the same share (39% median) the United States, when the United States, the United States, in the United States, as the worldwide economy, the worldwide economy, the worldwide economy, in the world, in the USA, the USA and the world's economy, in which the economy of the world has been seen.

Despite the growing sense that China is the world's economy, is People in almost all countries surveyed priorities with strong economic relationships with the United States with China.

This is the case, although the proportion of people who prioritize economic relationships with China has grown in more than half of the countries in which we asked this question beforehand. In Mexico, for example, 45% of adults now say that it is more important for their country to have strong economic relations with China than the United States, compared to 37% in 2019 and 15% in 2015.

Part of this movement can be related to trust (or lack of trust) in Trump to cope with global economic problems. In most of the nations surveyed, people with less trust in Trump on this question, have a strong economic relationship with China.

These are some of the most important findings of a new Pew Research Center survey among more than 30,000 people in 25 countries that were carried out on April 8, 2025 on January 8, 2025. The field work in every country, except that Indonesia began after Trump's second -term inauguration. Most interviews were carried out before Trump announced worldwide global tariffs on April 2. Further information on our survey of the field working time bar can be found in Appendix A.

Settings for China in nations with medium incomes

Our survey in nine countries with medium -sized incomes will have a closer look at the settings towards China and the USA.

Investment from China and the USA

Around half of adults or more in almost every country with medium-sized incomes that we have interviewed-icers of Argentina and India, see investments from China as good for their nation. And the proportion that expresses this view has been significantly increased in Turkey (+20 percentage points), Indonesia (+18), Kenya (+11) and India (+9) since 2019. It has decreased considerably in Nigeria (-18).

We also asked people about investments from the United States in Indonesia, Mexico, South Africa and Turkey. More people describe investments from China as good for their country as the same about US investments. In contrast, people in India see us more than Chinese investments as good.

Problems in bilateral relationships with China

People in many respondents say with medium -sized incomes that there are serious problems in their nation's relationship with China. For example, majorities in all nine call the height of the debt of their country China at least a somewhat serious problem. And in Brazil, Indonesia, Kenya and Nigeria, half or more call a very Serious problem.

Many people in these nations also see several other topics as problematic. This includes China's military power, their participation in their country's politics, its economic competition and its human rights policy. Brazilians and Indonesians are usually particularly concerned about each of these problems.

With the exception of India, however, people in these countries see many of the same problems in their relationships with the United States. 65% of South Africans say that the US guidelines for human rights are a very or a very serious problem. 56% say the same about the Chinese policy of human rights. (The South African survey was carried out after Trump signed an executive regulation in which US help for South Africa was stopped, but before a group of white Africans entered the United States as refugees. The survey was also carried out before South African President Cyril Ramaphosa met in the White House with Trump.)

Related: How people in 9 countries with medium -sized incomes see relationships with the USA, China,

China as an ally or threat

We also asked the respondents to name the most important and greatest threat to their country (in an open question).

China is not viewed as the greatest threat to any of the countries surveyed. However, the United States is the most commonly designated threat in Argentina, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa – sometimes with a big lead.

In the meantime, South Africans and Indonesians call China as the top ally in their country.

In all three Latin American countries surveyed (Argentina, Brazil and Mexico), the USA is the most frequently mentioned ally.

Jump to Chapter 4 More information about the views of top allies and threats.

Related: People in many countries consider the USA as an important ally. Others see it as a top threat