Negative views of China continue to grow in U.S. % who say they have a opinion of China
Since President Donald Trump took office in 2017, his approach to U.S.-China relations has included increased pressure via tariffs and trade war rhetoric, and now, with the onset of an unprecedented pandemic, the stage has been set for both sides to cast aspersions on the other. Against this backdrop, negative views of China have continued to grow, according to a new Pew Research Center survey of Americans conducted in March. Roughly two-thirds now say they have an unfavorable view of China, the most negative rating for the country since the Center began asking the question in 2005, and up nearly 20 percentage points since the start of the Trump administration. Positive views of China’s leader, President Xi Jinping, are also at historically low levels.
Negative views of China continue to grow in U.S.  | % who say they have a  | opinion of China  | 100 %  | Unfavorable  | 66  | 60  | 55 54 55  | 52  | 52  | 51  | 50 49  | 47 47  | 43  | 42 42  | 40  | 44  | 40  | 39 39 38  | 38 37  | 38  | 37  | 36 36  | 35  | 35  | 29  | 26 26  | Favorable  | 2005  | 2008  | 2011  | 2014  | 2017  | 2020  | Note: Don 't know responses not shown.  | Source: Survey of U.S. adults conducted March 3-29, 2020. Q5b.  | "U.S Views of China Increasingly Negative Amid Coronavirus Outbreak"  | PEW RESEARCH CENTER 