Survey: China to take over from US
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July 19, 2013, Friday
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China will eventually overtake the United States as the global superpower, according to the respondents in a major global survey conducted by the US-based Pew Research Center.
The survey, which canvassed the views of nearly 40,000 people in 39 countries, found a majority of respondents expected China, now the world's second biggest economy, to take top slot.
Slightly more than a third of respondents thought China was already the leading economic power, up from 20 percent in 2008.
The figure for the US dropped from 47 percent to 41 percent.
Even Americans are split about the future: nearly half said China would eventually overtake their country while the same proportion said it never would.
In Western Europe, the public in all countries polled except Italy - where the US was especially popular - believed that China had topped or already surpassed the US as the world's leading superpower.
But the study put the US favorability rating globally at 63 percent, compared with 50 percent for China.
Japan had by far the worst view of China: only 5 percent expressed a positive view of the country after territorial disputes that increased tensions between the two countries.
China's image declined significantly over the past two years in Europe, dropping 11 points in Britain and 9 percent in France. The trend is likely due to "unease about China as a commercial competitor," the survey said.
However, the survey found that China's investments in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa seemed to have had a positive effect.
Views toward China are largely positive in both regions, although the US still outscored its Asian rival in both areas overall.
China has the edge in the Middle East, where the popularity of the US - a staunch ally of Israel - remains low, especially in Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.
In Latin America and Africa, China enjoys some soft power success through science and technology, with more than two-thirds of respondents seeing this aspect in a favorable light.
But China still scored substantially lower than the US in areas linked to culture, business and the spreading of ideas - all important areas for supporting US popularity globally, especially among young people.
"Across all of these questions about American culture and ideas, young people regularly express more positive attitudes," said the report.
The Pew study found that there was limited interest in Latin America and Africa in China's music and movies, although most admired the Asian power's technological advances.
The two global powers also have an increasingly negative view of each other.
The proportion of Americans with a positive view of China fell to 37 percent this year from 51 percent two years ago. The story is the same in China, where US ratings plummeted from 58 percent in 2010 to 40 percent today.
The survey, which canvassed the views of nearly 40,000 people in 39 countries, found a majority of respondents expected China, now the world's second biggest economy, to take top slot.
Slightly more than a third of respondents thought China was already the leading economic power, up from 20 percent in 2008.
The figure for the US dropped from 47 percent to 41 percent.
Even Americans are split about the future: nearly half said China would eventually overtake their country while the same proportion said it never would.
In Western Europe, the public in all countries polled except Italy - where the US was especially popular - believed that China had topped or already surpassed the US as the world's leading superpower.
But the study put the US favorability rating globally at 63 percent, compared with 50 percent for China.
Japan had by far the worst view of China: only 5 percent expressed a positive view of the country after territorial disputes that increased tensions between the two countries.
China's image declined significantly over the past two years in Europe, dropping 11 points in Britain and 9 percent in France. The trend is likely due to "unease about China as a commercial competitor," the survey said.
However, the survey found that China's investments in Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa seemed to have had a positive effect.
Views toward China are largely positive in both regions, although the US still outscored its Asian rival in both areas overall.
China has the edge in the Middle East, where the popularity of the US - a staunch ally of Israel - remains low, especially in Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian territories.
In Latin America and Africa, China enjoys some soft power success through science and technology, with more than two-thirds of respondents seeing this aspect in a favorable light.
But China still scored substantially lower than the US in areas linked to culture, business and the spreading of ideas - all important areas for supporting US popularity globally, especially among young people.
"Across all of these questions about American culture and ideas, young people regularly express more positive attitudes," said the report.
The Pew study found that there was limited interest in Latin America and Africa in China's music and movies, although most admired the Asian power's technological advances.
The two global powers also have an increasingly negative view of each other.
The proportion of Americans with a positive view of China fell to 37 percent this year from 51 percent two years ago. The story is the same in China, where US ratings plummeted from 58 percent in 2010 to 40 percent today.
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