There survey is surprisingly lacking in the thoughts of China’s neighbors, such as mongolia, kazahkstan, taiwan, vietnam, nepal. There might be a rather telling perspective to evaluate the closeness of a border with china inversely correlated to favorable rating.

China’s neighbors are nervous and China’s people are fully onboard with doing whatever the CCP wants to do to glorify the motherland.

I suppose it depends a lot on the way the questions are asked. These kind of polls can point either way depending on what you’re trying to say. Fortunately they probably don’t have much effect on the way country’s make policy.

Or maybe the Killing Fields of Pol Pot, Mao’s brother from a different mother.

I particularly like the observation made at the end regarding the American presidential election. While who sits in the Oval Office does make some difference (at least with perceptions), when will people figure out just how little difference each successive president makes in the American grand scheme of things? Figureheads are always useful for some things, though.