Well China has been increasing and institutionalizing their autocracy for many decades, and are much better at controlling their media and public image.

According to the survey linked in the article,

one area where the U.S. still gets higher ratings than China has to do with personal freedoms: More say the U.S. government respects the personal freedoms of its people than say the same of the Chinese government.

Pew Research did also a survey to find out how views of the U.S. and China compare specifcally in Latin America:

• Views of China are now slightly more positive than views of the U.S., due largely to worsening views of the U.S.
• People generally lack confidence in both Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping to do the right thing regarding world affairs.
• People are much more likely to say the U.S. interferes in the affairs of other countries than they are to say the same of China, but the two superpowers are seen in a fairly similar light when it comes to their reliability as a partner and contributions to global peace and stability.

All in all it is a more balanced view and doesn't serve the Chinese propaganda.

What is absolutely missing in my humble opinion is how the U.S. and China compare to European countries, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and all the other democracies. The choice between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is just a bit like the choice between the plague and cholera. But that's just my opinion, maybe I am mistaken.

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Its funny how bad the us has to get to make it competitive. Even I'm in favour of closer ties to china over the us.

I mean how could they not? Even if you strip away everything else, there's at least the level of respect for competence. That clearly exists in one but not in the other.

This is not because views of China have improved. It's just that the view of the US has gotten that bad

I mean... China didn't threat us with war.

I mean no surprise if you spend your time threatening your "allies" and fucking up the world, etc....

From 14% to 44% in Canada between 2023 and 2026, that's particularly dramatic

I can't imagine any reasonable person having anything other than an unfavourable reaction to a petty, callow, thin-skinned, vindictive, childish, willfully ignorant and delusional narcissist and to the country that put him in charge.

That China and Xi benefit from that is really just a happenstance. Virtually any world leader and the country they lead are going to look good by comparison.

Sounds about right.

China might be an evil regime hell bent on silencing any form of dissent, but at least its a consistent one.

I mean, the countries that absolutely hated Soviets still allied with them when Nazis became the problem. It's nothing new that "lesser evil" is seen more favorably than "dangerously deranged aggressive nazi at the helm of country full of nuclear weapons and no human willing to stop him"

Applauding the tanks here.

Low bar

Right now China is the lesser evil of the two. Doesn't make China less bad than it was before.

The country that executes circa 30,000 people a year looked upon more favourably than the "Land of the free". LOL.

Xi is thousands time better than trump. And he has more support of chinese public than trump has of americans, again busting the myth of liberal democracy being deomcracies

Gee, wonder what caused this shift?

in poll of major countries

lol I always feel so left out of statistics like this 😔