Which country do you like the most?

I feel like "dislike the least" would be more accurate.

You'll notice a lot of the "Likes China" nations are consumer economies and a lot of the "Likes US" nations are export economies (particularly those in direct competition with China).
If I was working at Toyota, I wouldn't like the folks exporting BYDs to all my biggest customers, either.
- That may be a factor, but Germany is maybe the country in the world with the most auto industry. Possibly tied with Japan.
  And while Japan favors USA, which may be in line with your thinking, Japan has always had problematic relations with China. Which is a more likely explanation IMO.
  Still Germany favors China, so that speaks against your idea. And what's notable is that most traditional American allies, now doesn't even favor USA over China which has been a strained relation to mostly all those countries for a long time.
  I think what pisses people off is that USA is clearly abandoning their allies, friends and core values about international law and both political and trade relations, we've agreed on for more than 80 years.
  USA abandoning Ukraine after they promised to protect Ukraine when they gave up their nukes, is a very strong political signal that USA can't be trusted as a friend or ally.
  We don't expect much from China, as long as they don't invade Taiwan that's a plus!
  With low expectations it's much easier for China to live up to them.
  USA on the other hand, is failing completely with Trump threats lies and manipulation, and not only Trump, but the entire administration and MAGA and GOP. So USA is looking more and more as no better than China.
  And with China being the more reliable of the two, the favor tilts towards China now!
  It's really really sad that USA has fallen so deeply away from decency and respect of human rights, and have so little intention of following any promises previously made in international political agreements. Fuck Trump even abandoned his own trade agreement with Canada for no rational reason! And USA is threatening to invade an allied country!
  IMO this has little to do with working in a car factory, but much more to do with Trump creating insecurity, and fucking everybody over, and looking more and more like a Nazi doesn't help either.
- I give it 5-10 years, if that, before Brazil flips to China. Especially since Trump is trying to tell them how to run the country and China is proposing a transcontinental railroad.
Unlike in the small western propagandised US/EU group sinophobia isn't so rampant.
- So this is asking if you are a Sinophobe or Ameriphobe?
  How problematic
Brazilian here, can confirm.
The caption below the graph in the image states that is how you should interpret the results in some places:
The map compares the popularity of the U.S. and China in each country based on their net perception score (measured as the difference between the share of respondents with a positive perception minus those with a negative perception of each country.) The country with the higher net score is relatively more popular, or less unpopular.

This result is quite an achievement with the immense global soft power of US cultural institutions like Hollywood buoying it up.

People like the Belt and Road Initiative better than drone strikes and wealth extraction?

I'm shocked.

What do you like most, being kicked in the balls or being hit in the balls with some object?

More like "which country do you dislike slightly less". None of them are in the positives, it is just a choice between two evils.

The caption below the graph in the image states that is how you should interpret the results in some places:
The map compares the popularity of the U.S. and China in each country based on their net perception score (measured as the difference between the share of respondents with a positive perception minus those with a negative perception of each country.) The country with the higher net score is relatively more popular, or less unpopular.
Xi is only one with more positives than negatives.
- I too fear the purge comrade

Source: 2025 Democracy Perception Index

Dear Americans, think about this one. If you can.

Canada

Just like to point out for everyone else that, at least when it comes to Canada, the US vs China is a Last vs Second Last situation. Opinions on China haven't improved, the US has just fallen that far.
- I imagine that will be the case many places elsewhere also. Certainly that is in line with my own thinking.
- Opinions on China haven’t improved, the US has just fallen that far.
  Weeelll maybe not entirely, while I think you are right about public opinion not having improved much towards China, and most of it is because USA definitely has fallen.
  There is a matter about pragmatic politics of necessity or "real politics" as we call it here, but I don't know if that term means the same in English. But in that regard China has REALLY shot up in popularity, as the option for cooperation to keep our economies afloat while USA is hammering everybody including themselves on the economy, and is causing grat instability.
  EU has made many trade deals since Trump became president, Closer ties with UK, new deals with Canada within multiple areas including defense cooperation, and trade deal with Indonesia and Singapore.
  Some of these deals have been negotiated over years, but after Trump, they have suddenly become "finalized". Meaning they will be written into law.
  In the exact same way talks with China are now way more open about improving trade relations, to compensate for USA being unreliable. So in practical terms, relations with China are actually improving because of Trump!
- Yes, we know. You were supporting US atrocities without a shred of guilt or empathy for as along as you've existed. You only flipped because you're now on the receiving end of it this time.
With ex-NATO chief Rasmussen among others on the board of directors 😂
I'm sure they are very objective

Hmmmm... they made liking China red and liking the US green.. hmmm call me crazy guys but there might be a bias in this source

That isn't blue?
I swear I thought that this was red and blue.
Is this another dress situation?
- It's teal
From an org with ex-NATO chief Rasmussen in the board? Nah, completely neutral!
...is in fact teal, or as...

Do you like Cyanide or Arsenic?

I like happiness, so I'll go with cyanide.
- A classic pairing

Thanks trump

Didn't read the linked article when i first saw this post, some more interesting (though not surprising) results from the poll:

Trump recorded the worst score among a range of political, cultural and spiritual leaders that includes X owner Elon Musk, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, the late Pope Francis, Taylor Swift and Kim Kardashian.

Israel emerged as the country with the worst global reputation of those included in the poll, especially in the Middle East and South Asia. Israel is unpopular even in European countries that have historically been its allies, such as Germany, signaling growing discomfort with its government’s conduct in Gaza and the West Bank.

yet we germans are still happy enough to sign new weapon export deals to Israel. As long as the money flows, who cares for human right violations en masse, amirite?

I mean, if my options are the USA, China, and Russia, I'd rather go live on the moon.

Spoken like someone who has never lived on the moon.
- Terran privilege
I think it's at least pretty easy to rule out Russia as the worst of those 3.
- Right, definitely not the cancer that is the US, let's compare the countries they invaded and how many deaths they caused.
  🤡

TFW Vietnam likes you more than Canada

Vietnam has a very specific and valid grudge against China. Granted a grudge against the US would also be super valid. I think it falls along the lines of China should have been their ally so from them they felt betrayed. America just gave them what they expected from western imperialism. This is vibes based though so take it with multiple grains of salt
China probably feels pretty threatening to live next to. See: why many countries bordering Russia really really dislike Russia.

Mine isn't on the list.

Interesting that two of the few countries that prefer the US to China are China’s fellow BRICS members Brazil and India.

And everyone they share the western Pacific with...
- Not really surprising. China's not a particularly great neighbor since their govt seems to enjoy claiming territory it don't actually control.
As recently as 4 years ago, India and China have had a border conflict.
India has a fascist religious nutbag as a president.
I have doubts on the accuracy of Brasil, since the source is a western and biased one.
The US imports a lot of guns from Brazil.
- I can safely report that is not the reason why the US is more popular in Brazil.
- The US importing guns from Brazil has the same vibe as Saudi Arabia importing sand from Australia

I have serious doubts Brasil likes the US more, especially now.
But I'm not surprised since the source for this index is completely made up of people from the western imperialist core.
And ex-NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the board of directors.

provide an alternative source
- I don't have to provide anything.
  Just pointed out this source is BS.

Well, America isn't producing tons of cheap solar panels to contribute to the energy transition

They're about to lose Brazil.

Other graph in article is US popularity decline started with Ukraine war, and Russia gained. Russia is likely to overtake US in near future. The significance of 2022 trend start is that only everyone who already hated Russia was in favour of warmongering propaganda against it. Countries with Stalin Derangement Syndrome still love the US.

Russia started the war and they have the power to end it. That's not 'warmongering' it's the only path to lasting peace. Fuck war, fuck Putin.
- You're all like those hasbara people who think history starts on oct 7 and nothing happened before.
  Everyone with some interest in it has seen the US support, train and arm those fascist Azov that have terrorised the east and south for 8 YEARS.
  Just bcs they didn't care to show it in western news doesn't mean it didn't happen.
  And they broke the Minsk Accords, all of them.
  But Russia started it, riiight.
  Don't come crying now, they gave you all the chances for peace.
  That's what happens to US proxies.
I tried to read into this but I'm not going to pay 900 Euro to read the report.
There are plenty of good reasons why opinions on the US are souring but I can't think of a single reason why anyone would raise their opinion on Russia given they invaded a sovereign nation and their list of war crime is stacking up next to Israel.
Stalin Derangement Syndrome? Are you a Holodomor denier by any chance? He was a seriously flawed individual who made some seriously poor decisions. There are too many testimonials to ignore the mismanagement of the USSR. The US definitely pushed it off a cliff but it walked up to the edge.
- Stalin Derangement Syndrome? Are you a Holodomor denier by any chance?
  genocide designations are political, and blame on one side for a famine is always going to be more political than truth. The absolute worst nazi (anti communist first, any alternative 2nd)/nafo supporters here, and in eastern Europe who take their Stalin Derangement Syndrome as motivation to diminish Reformed Russia. Holomodor is a Ukrainian word, and a 90s western neoliberal/Ukrainian nazi political effort to lay the groundwork for division/war/liberal supremacist murder. Genocide absolutists serve evil warmongering bloodthirst only, and not truth.
  The interesting part of the graph is that US/NATO propaganda over manufacturing war did not convince any additional people to have negative views of Russia. People outside the western media bubble are not any smarter than those with easier access to cable news propaganda. They still have more access to western produced, english, media than Russian media. The steady improvement of Russia favorability since begining of war, is an extreme condemnation of US/NATO demonic evil warmongering.
- A 'sovereign nation' where Nuland dictates to the US ambassador who would be in the government?
  LOL

I dislike countries with backwards religion that tries to oppress women and certain groups.

And the US, atm.

(/am in the US)

They're the same thing.
No need for that "and", it's redundant.

Australia's choice surprises me. As does Vietnam, of all places.

Vietnam has almost always hated China. Vietnam only suffered under american imperialism for a couple decades, its suffered under chinese imperialism for millennia. There was a sort of alliance of convenience during the Vietnam War but as soon as the Americans left they sided with the soviets when the sino-soviet split happened. This got worse as China ( and the US to a lesser extent) backed Polpot and the khemir rouge while they were genociding Vietnamese in Cambodia and repeatedly starting border skirmishes until the Vietnamese invaded and kicked out polpot.
Even today the Vietnamese have contested borders with China in the south China sea, and the see the US as the only country that can guarantee they're claims.
Australia are part of the 5 eyes and US bootlickers
Same. Our economy relies heavily on China buying our stuff.
Remember when our former prime minister Scott Morrison ran his mouth about China and corona? China retaliated by finding excuses to not import a lot of different products from us. A lot of our industries here suffered.
Historically, China has never been a good neighbor. Still isn't.

As an american? Almost china at this point.

Not surprisingly, decline starts from 2023.

Culombian results surprised me.