China’s Positive Ratings dip 9% in India, Remain High in Pakistan
BEIJING: China’s positive ratings in India have dipped with a new opinion poll showing 34 per cent of Indians view it favourably compared to 43 per cent in an earlier survey, but 85 per cent of Pakistanis rated it as a friendly nation.
The survey, conducted by US-based Pew Research Centre to gauge the world wide perspectives about China, showed that 52 per cent Indians viewed China unfavourably while 34 per cent gave it a favourable rating.
The new polls showed a nine per cent dip in the favourable rating enjoyed by China in India as an earlier survey conducted by Chinese firm Horizan research consultancy group between 2000 and 2009 showed that 43 per cent Indians considered China as a partner and 23 per cent regarded it as hostile.
Results of the PEW survey published in the state-run China Daily here showed an interesting pattern with Beijing receiving its best ratings in Kenya where 86 per cent viewed it favourably compared to 10 per cent negatively.
According to the survey conducted in 22 nations from April 7 to May 8 this year, China understandably enjoyed high positive rating of 85 per cent in Pakistan. Only three per cent of Pakistanis interviewed gave unfavourable rating to China, projected as all-weather friend.
The rising Asian power, however, received mixed ratings across the world. Thirty six per cent viewed China unfavourably in United States against 49 per cent, 46 per cent regarded it positively in Britain against 35 per cent, 41 per cent against 59 in France.
China received good ratings in Russia too where 60 per cent viewed it favourably compared to 29 per cent negative perceptions.
Among the countries where China was viewed mostly negatively was Japan which has historic disputes with China. Sixty nine per cent Japanese viewed China unfavourably compared to 26 per cent otherwise.
In Germany, 61 per cent viewed China negatively compared to 30 per cent and 61 per cent view Beijing negatively compared to 20 per cent in Turkey.
Former US secretary of state Madeleine Albright, who co-chaired the Pew global attitudes project, noted at a Washington news conference on Thursday that China is regarded highly as a result of the country’s fast economic growth. “Their star is clearly rising,” she said.
In addition to China’s economic growth rate, Albright attributed the trend to the increased willingness of the Chinese side to “be a part of the solution to global issues”, which include the world economic crisis, Korean Peninsula denuclearisation and the Iran nuclear issue.
“A lot more people now know about China and have been to China,” she said, citing the Beijing Olympic Games and Shanghai Expo as examples of China’s improved “visibility” on the global stage, which promotes a better understanding of the country.
A Beijing-based international analyst Pang Zhongyin said the result of the poll is nothing new and Beijing still needs to step up efforts to strengthen communication with the world.
Being the “factory of the world”, China has contributed a lot to the world economy and its influence has kept growing, especially after the global financial crisis, Pang said.
“And such emerging economic power is unfortunately accompanied by misgivings from other countries and we need to convince the world that China is not what they imagine,” he said.
Pang emphasised the importance of public diplomacy, saying the Chinese government, from the top leader to the ordinary diplomat, has gradually taken the idea in mind.
He noted that Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent interactions with local people during his visit to the Republic of Korea and Japan is a good example of extending the message that China is not a threat.
India also slipped 10 places and joining the bottom rankings for LEAST PEACEFULL COUNTRY (talk about pakistan now what about India?)
Is that an actual rating that you can provide a link to? Or is that just something that you felt like making up?
Hi,
Indian news satte India lsipped 6 places:
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/article450768.ece
7 by Australi:
http://www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a142017.html
also
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/india-slips-to-128th-in-global-peace-index/631450/
Firstly it was reported by Times of India that India has slipped 10, but now corrected to 7…
So I did not bring it up out of now where…
Thank you
Thanks for the links. I looked up the Global Peace Initiative as well, and you’re correct. India has slipped a lot of points downwards, but that simply means – more scope for improvement. The slippage also has a lot to do with violence in the neighbourhood (Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka)
You guys appear to be further down the chain than even we are, but that’s understandable given your current situation. I guess, if the situation in Pakistan improves, India’s rankings will go up as well.
my friend…
If the trouble in Pakistan had effected India then India economy should have also been effecetd where it hasnt…
The slip of India is for its own problem which are nothing to do wiht Pakistan…
You can read the news and see many kiling by the maoist, the killing of police officer in bengal etc etc nothing related to Pakistan but they are Indias own problems…
Pakistan is in bottom 10 and called FAILED STATE…. LOL you being INDIAN must also find this funny, as FAILED states are like Somalia and Sudan which have nothing and no law, where in Pakistan we have everyhting and law… and the troulbe with terrorist we are fighing… if we were failed state they would have over taken us by now!!!! only fools can believe such nonesense…
Overall it is not because of Pakistan that India has gone down, it is becuase of Afghanistan WAR which has affecetd Pakistan and India and the countries around it…
lets get out of the turtle shell and look at things with fair judgement and balnce shell we mate?
Take care
Oh – I agree whole heartedly. We’ve got heaps of home grown problems, but none that have cropped up of late. Read history. The Maoists and Naxals have been around since the late 60s / early 70s. If you look up the GPI report, it talks about India’s decline being mainly because of the instability in the neighbourhood – and yes, Afghanistan has b*ggered up the situation in Asia. – we can thank the Americans for that !!
That, however, does not detract from the fact that we are so down below the ladder….. oh well, like I said earlier – if you’re at the bottom, things can only look better
I don’t think you guys are a failed state… but then again, does it really matter? You guys live there. And things still seem fine. India suffered terribly with terrorism in the 1980s and 1990s, yet we managed to come out fine – so will you. Let the world say whatever it wants you – what’s more important is that you guys continue doing whatever it is that you do to keep your nation strong.
And yes, the Indian economy hasn’t suffered much – even with the GFC. Which is a good sign, because a strong Indian and Chinese economy have the prospect of raising the levels of the neighbouring economies as well.
India is a mess because it is in fact Hindustan. Because of that, it shows in its policies also. it has problems with every neighbor because it hates every country neighboring it and makes friends with neighbors of neighbors. inside Pakistan also, the province of punjab, that touches it, is its target of hate and enmity and that is why it is using other provinces of Pakistan to create destabilization in pakistan by faking friendship with other provinces. because hindustan has problems with all of its neighbors, all of south asia will remain at problems as long as bharat remains a state. if bharat is either taken over or balkanized into further states, south asia will be a better place.
Yawn……