China Approval Down in World Opinion Poll.

In a recent poll taken by GlobeScan, China's positive rating dropped by 6 points in a poll taken in 21 countries. 40% of those polled view China negatively while 39% view it positively. I was surprised by this considering China's hosting of the Olympic Games last year and the excellent job that was done in preparation and execution of the games. In spite of the scandal over the Chinese gymnastics team, I was very impressed with the games and the opening ceremonies last year and thought China did a great job showing off it's country to the world. It seems to me that the most likely reason that people would view China negatively would be a lack of knowledge and understanding of China and I would have expected the Olympics to change some of those views for people. I wonder what China could do to get this opinion to start heading in the positive direction if the hosting of the Olympics did not help its image?


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