Dec 21, 2025 in Trackers

Global Views of China tracker

How do countries worldwide view China? Insights from 2020-2022 public opinion surveys in 54 countries and territories

This interactive tracker provides both general and also very granular perspectives regarding global attitudes towards China. The data is taken from unique public opinion surveys conducted in 10 EU countries in 2020 and 43 countries worldwide in 2022 by the Sinophone Borderlands Project.

As such, the tracker allows to compare the positions of various countries vis-a-vis China, while also zooming in on each country and continent in detail.

About the public opinion survey

The surveys were conducted under the research project “Sinophone Borderland – Interaction at the Edges”, funded by the European Regional Development Fund and run by Palacky University Olomouc. The surveys were focused on public attitudes on foreign policy issues and towards important countries in world politics, with special emphasis on China. There were four separate waves of data collection – one in 2020 and three in 2022.

The 2020 data was collected online between July 28 and October 7, 2020 in Italy, Spain, Sweden, France, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Serbia, and Russia. The 2022 data was collected online between August-October in 15 countries in the Indo-Pacific, June-July in 15 countries in Africa, Latin America and Caribbean and July-September 15 countries in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.

The data was collected by hired research agencies NMS, Focus, and Stem/Mark, with Cint being the main global partner providing panels of respondents. The country samples in Europe, North America and Middle East included at least 1 500 respondents representative of gender, age, region, urban-rural divide, and education. The country samples in the remaining two waves included at least 1 200 respondents representative of gender, age, and region. In some countries, additional quotas were used to represent ethnic/linguistic/religious diversity.

Feelings towards countries/entities have been measured on a 0 (negative) to 100 (positive) scale. The responses were coded as “very negative” (0-20); “negative” (21-45); “neutral” (46-54); “positive” (55-79); “very positive” (80-100).

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The tool shows data regarding:

a map with general attitudes towards China
comparison of attitudes towards major world powers (China, EU, Russia, US)
general attitudes towards China, preferences regarding strategic alignment with China and attitudes towards specific China-related aspects, including perceptions of the importance of China’s economy for a given country, views on China’s military power, assessment of its foreign policy, China’s cultural attractiveness
views on China-related issues including China’s impact on the global natural environment, influence on democracy in other countries, military power, Chinese investments, technology, promotion of China’s culture and language and trade
preference for countries’ foreign policy priorities towards China, including a focus on human rights and the promotion of democracy, addressing cybersecurity issues, promotion of trade and investment, preventing China’s geopolitical expansion and cooperation in terms of global issues, such as health and climate change

Users can explore the data using the filtering options on the left panel. Filters allow viewers to:

Compare views on specific China-related issues
Compare favorability towards specific foreign policy preferences or China-related aspects.
Narrow down responses by specific continents or specific countries to see national-level and continent-level differences.

Key Topics

Perceptions • Propaganda • Media Public Opinion Poll China

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