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Lifestyle => Train of Thought => Topic started by: Don Rizzle on March 05, 2005, 03:37:10 PM
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China influence seen as positive
China's influence on the world is seen as positive by more people than is the case for the US or Russia, according to a new BBC World Service poll.
In total, 48% of people polled in 22 countries said China's role was mainly positive. Only 30% saw it as mainly negative.
The majority of respondents were also positive about the communist nation's growing economic power.
But far fewer people wanted to see an increase in its military might.
Even in neighbouring Asian countries, which have historically been suspicious of China's dominance, opinions were relatively benign.
An exception was Japan, where only 22% of people polled said China had a mainly positive influence.
Most Japanese respondents expressed no opinion, with only 25% saying China's role was negative.
The survey of 22,953 people was conducted for the BBC World Service by the polling organisation GlobeScan, together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes (Pipa) at the University of Maryland.
Steven Kull, director of Pipa, said: "It is quite remarkable that with its growing economic power, China is viewed as so benign, especially by its Asian neighbours."
"However, this cordial view... does appear to depend on China restraining itself from seeking to convert its burgeoning economic power into a threatening military presence."
Economic growth
In 17 of the 22 nations polled, more people thought China had a positive influence than a negative influence.
China came out favourably when the results were compared with similar surveys looking at the global influence of Russia and the US.
An average of 38% of respondents saw the US as having a positive influence, with just 36% saying the same for Russia.
Indeed China, at 48%, is almost on a par with Great Britain, which scored 50%.
China's growing economic power is also seen as positive in the majority of nations polled.
Even in Mexico - whose manufacturers are often in direct competition with those in China - 54% of people polled were positive about China's economic rise.
But China's growing military might appears to be a less welcome aspect of its increasing global standing.
Only 24% of respondents said a rise in China's military power was a positive development, while 59% said it was negative.
Among the most concerned nations were Australia, Japan and the US, as well as many European nations.
The EU is currently considering lifting its embargo on arms sales to China.
A BBC correspondent in Beijing, Tony Cheng, says China has rarely felt the need to look beyond its borders for reassurance in the past.
But China is opening up. Widespread use of the internet and expansion of the mass media have brought the rest of the world into ordinary people's homes for the first time.
According to our correspondent, there is therefore an increasing concern about how the country is perceived, with Chinese citizens aware that progress will only come if they engage with the rest of the global community.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4318551.stm
(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40890000/gif/_40890225_china2_influences_gra416.gif)
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There are no real human rights in China. As they kills those or torture those of any religious affiliation. And on top of that if you have a baby and its not a boy, guess what abort on sight.
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This only proves that everyone outside of the United States is certifiably insane. Anti Americanism is so out of control that China is looked upon more positively than the US? How can we even take something like this seriously?
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This only proves that everyone outside of the United States is certifiably insane. Anti Americanism is so out of control that China is looked upon more positively than the US? How can we even take something like this seriously?
You're an idiot.
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Yall need to look up the difference between perception and reality. Perception is irrelevant. In the end, who cares how people perceive China?
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because they gonna over take your ass power wise and financially unless your really fuck them when you got to war with them over taiwan
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This only proves that everyone outside of the United States is certifiably insane. Anti Americanism is so out of control that China is looked upon more positively than the US? How can we even take something like this seriously?
So if you believe everybody outside the US is certifiably insane, then why do you pretend that you have this great desire to "free" them.