74% of Americans “Don’t Trust” China
- Categories: International, News
- Date: Sep 21, 2012 15:00 JST
- Tags: China, Comparison, Made in China, Okinawa, Politics, Senkaku Complex, Statistics, USA
Amazingly, surveys of the American people now reveal the vast majority of them do not trust their new Chinese friends at all, with most apparently considering them a more pressing threat even than Iran or North Korea – coming as something of a relief to Japanese who had been left pondering being dumped in favour of China.
Surveys of the US public conducted by Pew (some months prior to China’s latest efforts to wrest the Ryukyus from Japan) paint a dismal picture of US attitudes to their Chinese friends.
A mere 26% of Americans thought China could be trusted, and only a third believed China takes the interests of other nations into account.
In contrast, 62% thought Japan could be trusted, and majorities even trusted the likes of Britain, France, Israel and India.
Meanwhile 66% of those questioned viewed China as a “competitor” to the US, and 15% went further and considered them an “enemy.”
45% viewed Obama’s servile policy towards China as not being tough enough, compared to 39% who considered it about right – needless to say, Republicans were much harder on China than Democrats, although 48% of them still viewed China’s rise as a “major threat” to the US, compared to 60% of Republicans.
26% also thought China represented the biggest national threat to US security, more than such darlings of US foreign policy as Iran (16%) and North Korea (13%). Bizarrely, 1% actually thought Japan represented the greatest threat to the US, compared to 3% for Russia and “0%” for evil terrorists.
Japanese are delighted to learn that their own nearly universal loathing of China is shared by their American masters:
“An expected result!”
“I’m more shocked about 40% of them not trusting Japan…”
“Probably most of them were ‘no opinion’ and ‘don’t know’ though.”
“How long are they going to hold stuff against Japan for? It’s not like Obama holds stuff against whites…”
“Be thankful for that 60%, I bet hardly any Japanese trust America.”
“Only 62%…”
“Blame it on those damn Okinawans protesting their military all the time, they think we are all anti-American as a result.”
“So that stuff about Americans favouring China over Japan was just fabrication?”
“Pretty scary that there are 26% of them dumb enough to trust China. Not that Japan is likely to be any better.”
“What percentage of the 26% were Chinese Americans though?”
“Their universities are all full of Chinese, there’s your reason.”
“26% is rather a lot really.”
“I used to think China could be trusted when we were learning about Confucius in school.”
“I’m a bit worried about all their young people trusting China though…”
“The young ones are gradually being taken in by all the Chinese propaganda. Both America and Japan ought to be concerned about that.”
“Their young people have really fallen for China’s ploys, haven’t they?”
“The young ones are too left-wing!”
“Just be thankful their young people aren’t getting this level of anti-Japanese education:”
“I bet if they took it again after the riots in China it would be in the single digits…”
“What do we have to do to become one of America-sama’s states?”
“Give it up, if we did manage to become one we’d make up too much of their electorate, they’d never abide it.”
“Who asked for a Japanese president if Japan did become a state. We need a strong American president, putting some spineless Japanese politician in there would make the whole thing pointless.”
“It’s hardly surprising they hate a currency manipulating communist dictatorship which has ruined their industries.”
“Come on you damn yanks, only 62% of you trust your loyal little Japanese doggy?”
“We’re supposed to be their ally!”
“Just remember that the average American doesn’t care about or have any knowledge of other countries at all.”
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ONLY 74%? In Vietnam, 100% of us give no trust and respect to those barbarian invaders.
Same thing for the Filipinos, Japanese, Taiwanese, Russian, and Tibetan.
Really? I'm interested because I'm vietnamese. Can you tell me more about what Vietnam though about this conflict?
Ignore the guy talking about vietnam. Those taht fought in the Vietnam war have PTSD. Vietnam was never an invader during the 70's. The US jumped into a civil war that really it had no business in. The guy is wrong. 100% of americancs protested the draft in the 70's because they were against the Vietnam war.Those protest were asking to bring soldiers home and stop sending new ones. Vietnam was a war the US had to eventually abandon and let the country itself fight it out because the US didn't know what the hell it was doing there. The US was supposed to be in an out, to give brief aid. That's it. Instead we go on a full out interference. The soldiers there got so freaked out by the methods of fighting it caused trauma. Most Vietnam vets still think they are in Vietnam and thus fear of invasion due to PTSD. Delusions.
Difference between Vietnam and China...China is making visible "invasions", through hacking and through hostile economic takeovers. While I say invasions there isn't a lot of proof right now. It's more like they are just bullying the rest of the world. Frankly no one like's China yet they are grabbing the world by the balls. Big problem is even if foreign investors want to pull out of China and move to Africa, it seems the Chinese Government predicted this sooner than the rest of the world. Guess what? China's moving their factories over to africa. They're 1 step ahead of everyone else. The only salvation is if the country collapses upon itself.
Oh I see now. Thanks for the information.
But I still can't see what does Vietnam think about the conflict between China and Japan.
Since I live in Europe, and don't know so much.
Stupid enough to throw around figures like 100% of americans protested draft.
Vietnam has the right to feel suspicious towards the chinese. Not only 1979, but throughout history invasions and threats emerged from the north. Vietnamese are racially and culturally bullied by chinese who feel great deal of racial supremacism when talking about vietnamese. Deng said it so when meeting US officials in 1979: We are spanking the bottom of an unruly child. It speaks to a great deal of undeserved cultural idiocy that specifically seeks to degrade the vietnamese as 'inferiors'.
My father was almost lost his life in the skirmish in 1988 with China. He served as a radioman on a ship which joined the suicide mission to transport troop to Vietnam Spratly Islands outposts. Many was killed by PLA at that time. He came back alive but many others were not so lucky. I was born at the end of 1988. My life would be messed up if he didn't come back. If you think Vietnam would trust China, you're deadly wrong. Only the Pro-China government (full of corruption) subdue Vietnamese who try to protest against China. If you are interested in Vietnam, you should know there are over 20 protests campaign all over Vietnam toward China already. Most of them are to blame our so-called Leaders who prostituted us to the North. We're living in shame thank for a coward and corruption government. Many protesters was "vanished" and you know what I mean.
I have my Chinese friends like you, but I will never trust Communist China Gov.
It is a mostly unknown fact even for Vietnamese themselves that many soldiers of Imperial Japan Army did join the Vietminh (Vietnamese partisans) against the French in the first Indo-Chinese war after Japan surrendered. So in fact Japanese are the first international friends of Vietnam.
For the China-Japan conflict I don't give a fuck about Chinese playing victims since they did more horrible crimes against Vietnamese people during their two periods of occupations (ancient times and Ming dynasty) than the Japanese did to them. They should be glad that the Japanese raped Nanking - the capital of their much hate "reactionaist" Cheng's government.
I'm Vietnamese I don't like China. Even though I may have Chinese blood in my vein thank to the cultural extermination back in the Northern Colonial period. I still have to say, I won't trust China.
If you're Vietnamese (who really care about your future) you should know about China tricks to destroy Vietnamese economic and culture. Especially in construction business, we all know that the Made in Chinese structure will just collapse or made out of craps.
Đéo bao giờ chơi với Trung Quốc.
(Never trust China)
No, he's right about the Filipino's having no trust or respect for the Chinese. Did you hear about the tour bus of Chinese in the Philippines? It was hijacked and the Chinese people on board all shot.
Great moment that was. It should be repeated more.
Yes, Because punishing the open minded-chinese that travel globally will help =\
Not ALL chinese are bad... the racist hateful ones are typically the ones that never leave the country, much like the ones in america who wouldn't be able to point the difference between china and korea on a map.
Reminds me of our old russian joke:
China and Russia got in the war, China droped atomic bomb = 10 million people died. Russians droped rubber bomb = 100 million died....bomb is still jumping.....
misinformation, not everyone was shot.
Those People were from Hong Kong. I do feel sory for them. I wish tHong Kong became a separate country, instead of being part of that ridiculous Commie Country up north making exploding things as one of their specialties..
They were Canadians.
I'm one of those 100% :D
Yet your whores will gladly take our money. And if we're stupid enough, marry one of us to escape that place.
hah, some of the comments are just great...Even in light they are more liked over China they still have snarky remarks.
Oh well to be expected, at least a few of the comments showed a form of intellect.
we'll if someone ever thrust china it could be because he couldn't afford a japaness onahola
we'll if someone ever thrust china it could be because he couldn't afford a japaness onahole
I guess that means he learned not to the hard way. Poor dick, never say the explosion coming...
this is just so fucking odd
"young adults" hate chinkos and most see them as a enemy be it right or left
It's about time the world realize what China truly is. The truth is: the FREE countries of East Asia hates China, all Southeast Asian countries hates China, and all South Asian countries hates China. China the big bully of Asia can go to hell.
Everyone in that part of the world hates each other. They've spent centuries try to conquer each other, collect tribute from each other, thumbing their noses at each other, and probably a few other things no one else has thought of yet.
I like to think of everyone being butthurt because China used to be the backwater and now they are in the front of everything (except quality in some cases). The fact it has an unbroken string of historic heritage also says something of its integrity among the Asian countries that try so hard to be free and what's not. There is something to be learned of this and that is China has merely survived everything everyone has thus far thrown at it and prospered. Additionally, the PRC survey is about as accurate as someone asking donkeys to fill out leave forms for holidays from constant carrot chasing. These percentages represent America's insecurity and scrutiny to all those who don't follow their 'concepts' and in a way, the irony is that the USA resembles pretty much like Islam right now, it seems unable to tolerate anyone who has another way that works, and it cannot unhinge itself from thinking that other party is a threat when in fact: lets look at how many wars US has started. How many has ended, and how many seem to be on the brink of starting? Take a look at how many China has started in the recent 'rising eastern power' years: NONE. Look carefully, and think about what a real threat is. The real threat is the perceived one, one people like Mitt is hammering into the very minds of otherwise smart and wise people. We cannot weigh people on an overgeneralization, just because China vetoed on Syria means hardly much in the large scale and long term of things. At the core of it all is simply USA's rotting feature of 'Big Brother Mentality' One indeed it seems unable to shift from since the Cold War.
Inb4 insults and claims that china started wars in tibet, uyghurland, equestria, etc.
China started The Korean War in 1950.
Whilst the rest of the world have enjoyed centuries of uninterrupted peace?
Pakistan still likes China because they support them in their fight against India (who is backed by Russia).
The riots compounded with our debt to them is basically crippling our trust in them. Companies are talking about pulling out business in China if the riots persist. Why take the risk in an unstable environment?
If you are talking about the U.S. they everything you wrote besides the debt is utter hogwash.
You wish it was. Maybe china will try to dump the bonds in international market and see who really gets more damage? Or are you one of those idiots who think china can 'call back' its debt whenever it wishes without any knowledge of how global international bond agreements work?
Well thats nothing, 90% of earthians don't trust the US XD
Yeah... but when shit hits the fan. Who do you think they look for to clean up the mess?
Their bitching is like that of unruly child against their elders. Mouth off when they feel like they can poke at the stronger nation, but come crying when shit hits the fan.
US should just stop being too nice for its benefit. Some people just deserve what they get at the hands of oppressors, murderers, governments, etc.
that's true sadly
These figures are way off because I didn't vote and my vote is equivalent to thousands.
and wtf is Pew Research Center and where they getting these percentages and how many people were even included in this?
Same here, and I feel left out as one who actually enjoys surveys :C
Site seems legit.
The number make sense as well.
- Communist
- Emerging economic power
- Emerging military power
- Job loss to China
The site seems /not/ legit.
The site includes generalized text not supported by the questions and responses, e.g., it says, "Yet, a majority describes China as a competitor and few say the U.S. can trust the Asian nation."
I didn't see a question reading, "Do you trust China?"
That question is so broad as to be meaningless.
By "China" does one mean the Chinese government, Chinese nationals living in China, Chinese nationals living in other countries, people of Chinese descent, or what?
/Some/ -- not all, and probably not most -- people in government, business, and the military lie, cheat, steal, and oppress other people.
I don't see that being tied to a particular national affiliation or genetic descent.
The initials of the Pew Research center are PRC, like People's Republic of China.
They're call that because they just pew pew up the votes >.>
Honestly i dont trust in this... why?
1-China banned the use of english supposedly to preserve their traditions.
2-China banned the browse trought foering website, for that reazon they also banned facebook and they made their own social website.
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-I would like to know the font of this information or who is the responsible to get such info.
-Maybe im wrong but does not Sankaku Complex are inciting hatred toward China?
-Why all the comments that i do in spanish are moved to the bottom or even deleted?
it's no surprise if china gets there way their fine but when they start to lose well they start threatening and rioting china is not bad it's the leader and indoctrination that goes on if the leader and his buddies weren't so corrupted and cared for their country's health and ran thing not based on violence etc it wouldn't be that bad anyway i prefer japan over china anyway i might be an american but i taught my self japanese i learned there aspects, behavior, attitudes and customs and i live by most of them you should never judge a country unless you live a life like theirs after all there the odd ones out if there WAY of life differs than your own
You are making an awful lot of assumptions regarding China while never having "lived their life".
You're making awful lot of assumptions about him not having 'lived their life'. Funny if it wasn't so damn pathetic trying to sound like you know something.
same anon as 15:47
you are not wrong in that regard i stayed in china for 1 year on business not living as they did. When you live there you see things that is not shown in news when a foreign doctor voluntarily helps a person and cures an illness and the person thanks their leader over the doctor well thats wrong or if you speak badly against you leader and your beaten then thats also wrong. controlled by violence and brainwashed to praise him as a god well i see fault their but i cant say there entirely at fault. i have also been to Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, Egypt, New Zealand, Australia and currently trying to become a resident of japan
The foreign doctor didn't cure that person, the government did for letting the doctor in the country and having the far-sighted wisdom to build bridges and roads for said doctor to get to person's city. Doctor didn't build that! All worship the glorious leader Obama! Sorry, I meant Hu Jintao!
Inb4 people make an exploding joke to get points.
“Just remember that the average American doesn’t care about or have any knowledge of other countries at all.”
Actually I don't think the average American has any knowledge about their own country either...
ROFL! I was just going to make that comment, and here it is... the first one in the list. It seriously is sad just how easily the stupid people have it in this country. Being middle class, you get screwed. The rich get a plethora of tax breaks (granted we're able to get many of them too, but they don't have as great of affect on us because it's rare we have spare money for them to affect), and the poor/impoverished (code for lazy and useless in most cases) get money handed to them for every kid they pop out. That kid then grows up to be the same as their parents, and so-on. Meanwhile, the vast majority of the money paying for these lazy bastards comes from the middle class (mostly because there are more middle class than upper). Rather than giving people more money for popping out more kids, they should sterilize them after 2 kids if they don't have the income to support them themselves. Half the time, they don't even give a damn about the poor kid anyway.
Sadly that's the case for most "developed" countries.
Yes, by all means, move to an undeveloped country like Rwanda or Myanmar and live in peaceful paradise.
I don't and Im not ashamed of it either.
Always trying to turn west's criticisms around and make it sound like west is worse. That would be true only if it really is so.
Facts are not equal to personal biases. Reality has a habit of bitch slapping uppity fuckers who like to delude themselves according to views they feel comfortable with, not facts.
Remember that next time you feel the pathetic uncontrollable urge to bitch about the west.
So...instead we'll ignore our shortcomings and wrongs? Yeah, that sounds so much better! THIS is the problem with us Westerners. We constantly critisize countries for various reasons (mostly out of pure ignorance). Here are a few facts that us Westerners love to avoid;
-We jump into other countries problems as if we decide what's what.
-We love to play the divde and conquer game with various countries society.
-We try to enforce "OUR" morals upon others.
-We blindly support so called "liberation" or "justice" without hesitation while being completely ignorant on matters (Tibet, Iraq, Middle East, Russia, China).
-We brush off our mistakes to downplay it's seriousness.
-We're (America mostly) big hypocrites and love using double standards.
Face it, we might not be the worse in certain aspects. But as people in ignorance, we shine. This is coming from a Brit who's government is a massive douchebag thanks so us falling for Cameron's bullshit.
As much as China is universally known for lack of human rights, plagerism and a variety of negatives to count and Japan known for social inadaquecies, denialists, paedophiles and rapists. America is universally known as being world police, high on ignorance, moral zealots and hypocrites.
It's your own problem if you can't handle criticism of your own country. One would be a moron if one didn't expect to recieve the same treatment for what one has said to another.
You really need to check yourself. You have no idea how much of a laughing stock treatment other people get because of self-hating, spineless and really ignorant fool like you who thinks they are being more 'enlightened' by chipping away at their own nations.
Your kind of people who like to criticize what you think are easy targets is the reason west is in such turmoil mentally and spiritually. Instead of simply accepting facts proportionately and still remaining in the interest of their own country, you bitch and bitch while trying to tell others you are being more 'enlightened'.
You have absolutely no idea about what these so-called anti-US crowd think. You don't know unless you have been one. Their hypocrisy and ignorance is not a reaction towards the west's actions, but rather opportunistic and cowardly. Where are the muslim attacks against china for state sanctioned Quran, raids in mosques, or destruction of a muslim nation that is on going now?
We do, in fact, have higher moral authority in a relative sense. While not without faults, we continue to correct and improve, often against popular and short-sighted ignorant criticism from crowd like yours. Many nations vehemently anti-west are also those that are extremely impoverished and oppressed, most if not all by their own hands. And on the international stage, those who behave like entitled victims have no moral authority over those who succeed, advance, and empower its people.
Really, the self-hate and spineless ignorance that latches onto whatever smells like a stronger party (even if that party is interested in nothing more than using and defiling the group you really belong to) is not only pathetic - it wins respect from no one. If you have any pair left, check what you say and be loyal to your group instead of whoring out to anything that feels like empowers your shifting attitude.
Finally, a comment that actually makes sense in all this chaos. Maybe hatred will be removed from this website one day, and peace will be restored to sankaku, making sankaku about the "sankaku" again.
Summary of 20:17:
"You should be loyal with whatever badassery your coutry's pulling instead of hippying out because it's easier"
No, shitting with the crowd's easier. Care to join the Chinese? You'd be best of bros.
"You apologists think you're smarter than us"
Oh the fears... Thanks for confessing up.
"You have no idea how anti-us ppl think because you've never been them. But I know: *rants on"
"We DO have moral authority cause WE DA BEST and they be little fuckers"
Aww so cute.
"You're just a twofaced poser who stands with the strongest party"
Think I saw the word 'victimisation' somewhere up there...
Except thinking the east worse and imagining they have a neutral understanding of east politics IS the biggest bias in the world. If anything, the biggest problem in western thinking (read:Amerikkka) is overemphasis on their own values and denigrating others, when the 'facts' they're based on may be inaccurate, taken out of context, or plain propaganda altogether.
And you think this is limited to the USA? Gave me a good laugh there.
Far too many countries are like that. at least with them they have a far better reason for it since they're only close to Canada/Mexico really, as where there isn't any excuse in Europe and yet it's pretty bad.
It's not limited to the USA. But USA is the biggest player for being the loudest, ignorant and double standard about anything outside the country is all.
Don't worry, the "average" American China hater is slowly dying out.
I remember a show, there's this guy showing a picture of Franklin Roosevelt to college and university graduates, most of them don't know.
Knowing what Roosevelt looks like - or even what he did, for that matter - essentially amounts to trivia in today's world. It's not practical knowledge, so it's no wonder that people wouldn't be familiar with it.
I'm sure most of them knew who Franklin Roosevelt was, and knowledge of what he did can be considered important for learning from the past.
However, I agree that knowing what he 'looked like' is arguably unessential trivia at this point. He's been dead for 67 years, after all. Being able to recognize him at a glance is probably only useful for historians. Any time a picture or video of him is presented to the general public, it will almost always be paired with a caption or commentary indicating who he is.
And jackasses like this are why the average person stops giving a shit entirely.