China is more popular than the United States throughout Europe... It's a strange world, is all I can say. The Economist peers into the latest Pew survey of global attitudes:
Pew asked its respondents to give favourability ratings to five nations: America, France, Germany, Japan and China. America came bottom of everyone's list everywhere except in India, where it was top, Poland, where it was in the middle and China, where it came above Japan. The British view France and Germany more favourably than they do America.... (Germany won this particular beauty contest, by the way, scoring highly almost everywhere except Germany itself.)
...[H]uge majorities—between 70% and 80%—said they thought the world would be better off if America faced a rival military power... Other people think Americans are hard-working and inventive, yes. But in most countries, more than half think of them as greedy and violent and, in the Middle East, as immoral.
