According to a 2022 Pew Research study, 82% of Americans have a negative view of the Chinese political system. 42% of Americans are very critical of what they see as China’s human rights offenses. 43% are very concerned about China’s growing military power. And 47% resent what they believe to be China’s involvement, or meddling, with US domestic politics. [1] A 2021 Pew study found that 89% of US adults consider China a competitor or enemy , rather than a partner. [2] In August of 2022, Foreign Affairs magazine published an editorial by Elbridge Colby urging the United States to do more to prepare for war with China due to the increasing likelihood of a People’s Liberation Army (mainland China’s military) invasion of Taiwan. [3] These attitudes are reminiscent of the Cold War era, when Ronald Reagan denigrated the Soviet Union as an “evil empire.” Such a characterization, of course, factors out everything good that the political leadership may have done for the people in that country
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