Nobody Likes China

Or hopefully, nobody likes Xi Jinping (XJP). A 2020 report from the Pew Research Center shows that since 2002, views on China has trended towards more unfavorable in many countries. Here are the results:

The green line is favorable and blue line is unfavorable. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) likes to blame the U.S. for anti-Chinese racism, but the dislike is widespread, including non-Western countries like Japan and South Korea. Some of the 2020 results can be attributed to COVID-19, but I feel most of the negativity is due to XJP and his wolf-warrior foreign policy. The chart above also specifically calls out 2011. That was when China started claiming the island in the South China Sea in earnest using the bullshit 9-dashed line excuse.

Here is another question that focuses on XJP:

I am unclear why South Korea had confidence in XJP early on, but that has changed, likely due to the THAAD fiasco. Now, with the zero-COVID nonsense, even the local Chinese people are starting to dislike their rulers.

As a Chinese person, I wish there was more accountability within the CCP so one asshole cannot ruin everything. This happened with Mao, and it looks like history will repeat with Xi. However, it does appear that the CCP has entrenched itself through years of fear, corruption, and brainwashing, so I cannot envision a peaceful way for the Chinese people to overthrow the CCP mafia without violence and much bloodshed.