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China surpassed the United States in global approval ratings in 2025, with a median of 36% approving of China’s leadership, compared with 31% for the U.S. China’s five-percentage-point advantage over the U.S. is the widest Gallup has recorded in China’s favor in nearly 20 years.

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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (45 children)

Considering China is an authoritarian regime that has no issue with "reeducating" and "disappearing" millions of its own citizens and is bullying its near neighbours making claims over their land and is threatening (with actions) to forcibly reintegrate Taiwan, to be more popular globally than America is no mean feat.

Same way people are supporting Iran over them, even though they are objectively terrible from a moral and ethical standpoint. The world has quickly disregarded the fact they only a couple of months ago they noisily and publicly executed 10s of thousands of protesters.

America is now more unpopular than them. Thats how deep they have sunk

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (14 children)

The US is literally doing all the things you're accusing China of. The only reason it gets a pass on the massive carceral state, the largest in the world by far, is because its cultural industry has so normalized it.

The big difference is that China is a net positive when it comes to global stability and addressing climate change, whereas the US is not.

Those of us who care about things like democracy and human rights have a lot of digging to do.

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Last I checked the USA wasnt forcing (yet) god knows how many Muslims into reeducation camps.

But yes I agree they're sliding into the depths of authoritarianism.

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