‘Views in the Global South are muc • Table.Briefings

Andrew Chubb is Foreign Policy and National Security Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute.

While people in the Global North tend to have a more negative view of China, people in the Global South see the country in a more positive light – and yet the differences are huge there, too. Andrew Chubb from the American Asia Society and his team have summarized 2500 survey results from 160 countries. These are some of their findings.

Over the past few decades, the number of surveys measuring citizens’ sentiments towards China worldwide has exploded. You and your team have compiled 2,500 survey results from 160 countries into a single data set – including an interactive map that is fun to play with. At first glance, the rift between a Global North that perceives China much more negatively than the Global South is striking – but a closer look reveals a much more nuanced picture.

‘Views in the Global South are much more varied’

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