More Americans View China as ‘Enemy’ as Trust in Dwindles
- Pew finds 83% of US adults have unfavorable opinion of nation
- Report comes as US-China tensions have worsened recently
Xi Jinping during the closing session of the First Session of the 14th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, on March 13.
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Americans are increasingly seeing China as an “enemy” of the US rather than a competitor, reflecting growing public skepticism over the ability for the world’s two largest economies to cooperate, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
Some 38% of respondents to the survey labeled China as an “enemy,” up 13 percentage points from last year. More than half those polled described China as a “competitor,” while just 6% said the country was a “partner” of the US.