Latin America sees China as more positive global influence than US: Poll
Annual Latinobarometro survey finds views of China’s influence improving as perceptions of US influence worsen.
China is perceived more positively as a global influence than the United States in Latin America, according to a new regional survey, in a first since the poll began in 1995.
Support for China has risen sharply since 2020, when 48 percent of respondents viewed its influence positively. The figure for the US has fallen from 60 percent over the same period.
Latinobarometro, a Chile-based nonprofit organisation, conducts annual surveys across the region on issues including democracy, the economy, security and migration.
That has included conducting strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats in the region, which rights groups have decried as extrajudicial killings, and abducting Venezuela’s then-leader Nicolas Maduro in Brazil.
Despite the findings on global influence, the US remained more popular than China when respondents were asked about their overall views of the two countries.
A majority in all but one country, Argentina, approved of Maduro’s capture by US forces.
Venezuelans were among the populations most likely to view US influence positively, according to the survey.
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