Christine Huang

Only three-in-ten Americans say it is a very serious problem for the United States if Xi Jinping assumes a third term as China’s leader.

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?

Australian adults most frequently mentioned the political system when thinking about China, while others mentioned threats and human rights.

Much larger shares of people in most nations see China’s influence growing than say the same of the United States.

Large majorities in most of the 19 countries surveyed have negative views of China, but relatively few say bilateral relations are bad.

More than nine-in-ten Poles see Russia as a major threat and have no confidence at all in Putin

Older Americans, those with more education and men tend to score better on our 12-question quiz about international knowledge. Republicans and Democrats have roughly the same levels of international knowledge, while conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats tend to score better than their more moderate counterparts.

Americans see China as a growing superpower – and increasingly say it is the world’s leading economy.

Pew Research Center recently sought to translate more than 11,000 open-ended survey responses into English.