What Are Americans’ Top Foreign Policy Priorities?
The majority of Americans say preventing terrorism and reducing the flow of illegal drugs into the country are top foreign policy priorities.
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The majority of Americans say preventing terrorism and reducing the flow of illegal drugs into the country are top foreign policy priorities.
Nearly a quarter of countries used force to prevent religious gatherings during the pandemic; other government restrictions and social hostilities related to religion remained fairly stable.
Results presented in this data essay are drawn from nationally representative surveys conducted over the past 20 years in more than 60 countries.
The Chinese Communist Party is preparing for its 20th National Congress, an event likely to result in an unprecedented third term for President Xi Jinping. Since Xi took office in 2013, opinion of China in the U.S. and other advanced economies has turned more negative. How did it get to be this way?
Large majorities in most of the 19 countries surveyed have negative views of China, but relatively few say bilateral relations are bad.
Here are recent findings about Americans’ views of the diplomatic boycott and how people in the U.S. and around the world see China.
About nine-in-ten U.S. adults (91%) say they have heard little (46%) or nothing at all (45%) about the diplomatic boycott of the Olympics.
Unfavorable views of China also hover near historic highs in most of the 17 advanced economies surveyed.
Fewer adults have confidence in Joe Biden to handle the U.S.-China relationship than other foreign policy issues.
The United Nations is broadly credited with promoting peace and human rights as younger adults are more supportive of cooperation with other countries.
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