China's US Image the Most Positive in Three Decades - Drumpf ?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans have been feeling more positively toward China in recent years, and now 50% say they have a favorable opinion of that country -- up from 44% in 2016 and 41% in 2012. This is the highest for this measure in Gallup trends since a 72% reading in February 1989, months before the Chinese government's violent crackdown on pro-democracy protesters at Tiananmen Square sent its U.S. favorable rating tumbling to 34%.
After remaining low for about a decade following the Tiananmen Square incident, Americans' favorable rating of China rose to the low 40s in 2001 -- the same year China joined the World Trade Organization -- and remained in the 40s until now.
China's favorable rating was only 38% in 1985 but registered 72% in Gallup's next reading, in February 1989, taken days after President George H.W. Bush returned from a diplomatic visit to China.
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