The Global Perceptions of China Center focuses on studying public attitudes toward China worldwide and how they are influenced by Chinese foreign policy, including public diplomacy, strategic narratives, propaganda, and foreign information manipulation and interference (FIMI) operations.
Our goal is to understand how China is perceived across different regions, what drives these perceptions, and how China’s image compares with that of other major actors, including the United States, the EU, and Russia.
CEIAS launched its public opinion research in 2020 and 2022, when, together with the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc, it conducted a series of representative online surveys in 56 countries and territories, encompassing more than 80,000 respondents. The most recent wave of surveys was carried out in the Visegrad Four countries in 2025.
In addition, we analyze media discourse both about China and within China to identify the actors that shape narratives and public perceptions. We also regularly monitor media and social media spaces in Central Europe to track how narratives about China circulate in the region, to what extent they echo Chinese state propaganda, and how they are influenced by Chinese Communist Party-led FIMI operations.
