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May 21, 2020
** Global Attitudes & Trends
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A biweekly digest of the Center's latest findings from its worldwide public opinion surveys and demographic research · Subscribe ↗ ([link removed])
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** Americans criticize China’s handling of coronavirus
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Our new U.S. survey reveals a consistent narrative among Americans: China did a poor job dealing with the coronavirus outbreak (64%), the government in Beijing can’t be trusted (84%), and China’s international influence will suffer as a result of the pandemic (50%). Americans don’t necessarily give their own country high marks for handling the coronavirus – just 47% say the U.S. has done a good or excellent job dealing with the virus. But the most scathing assessments are saved for China. Our April report on worsening American opinion of China ([link removed]) already had publications from Newsweek ([link removed]) to The Wall Street Journal ([link removed]) talking about a “deep chill” or Cold War between the U.S. and China. In the court of U.S. public opinion, at least, U.S.-China relations appear increasingly frosty.
James Bell
Vice President of Global Strategy, Pew Research Center
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** Americans give higher ratings to South Korea and Germany than U.S. for dealing with coronavirus ([link removed])
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Asked how well different countries have responded to the COVID-19 outbreak, Americans give high marks to South Korea and Germany, a new Pew Research Center report finds ([link removed]) , but most believe China – where the pandemic is believed to have originated – has done an only fair or poor job.
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** Amid coronavirus crisis, Americans and Germans see changing world in different ways ([link removed])
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As the coronavirus pandemic continues apace, people in the United States and Germany express different views about international relations and globalization, according to surveys conducted ([link removed]) in both nations in April by Pew Research Center and Körber-Stiftung.
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** In Taiwan, views of mainland China mostly negative ([link removed])
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By a nearly two-to-one margin, people in Taiwan rate the U.S. more favorably than mainland China, a new Pew Research Center report finds ([link removed]) . There is widespread support for increased economic and political ties with Washington; enthusiasm for similar relations with mainland China is much more muted. Still, even as people are skeptical about closer political relations, half would embrace closer economic ties with mainland China.
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** Worldwide optimism about future of gender equality, even as many see advantages for men ([link removed])
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Across 34 countries polled, a median of 94% think it is important for women in their country to have the same rights as men ([link removed]) , with 74% saying this is very important. But women are less optimistic than men that women in their countries will achieve equality in the future, and they are more likely to say men have better lives than women.
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** For global legislators on Twitter, an engaged minority creates outsize share of content ([link removed])
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A majority of lawmakers in the national legislative bodies of five predominantly English-speaking countries have a Twitter account, a new Pew Research Center report finds ([link removed]) . But as is true among other types of Twitter users, a modest number of active tweeters produce an outsize share of legislative tweets.
** In the news
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The share of Americans who say the United States has done a good or excellent job ([link removed]) in handling the coronavirus pandemic.
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