International Affairs

China’s power is growing, but as it assumes a more prominent role on the world stage, its global reputation is beset by a host of challenges.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's call for high-level talks with China comes at a time when Japanese attitudes toward China have soured precipitously as tensions have grown due to disputes over trade, geopolitics and history.

Nearly half of Americans say the country should mind its own business internationally and let other countries get along as best they can on their own.

In the fifth year of the Obama presidency, the United States’ image remains strong around the world compared with the last years of the administration of President George W. Bush. Still, pro-America sentiment is slipping.

Survey Report Mali holds a presidential election July 28, its first election since the French military led a January 2013 intervention to oust Islamic rebels from the north of the country. As Malians go to the polls, Africans, on balance, approve of the French military incursion in its former colony and France enjoys a largely […]

A global Pew Research Center survey finds a large gender gap in attitudes about U.S. government use of drones to target terrorists.

America’s competition with China is heating up in developing countries. Using a new survey on the global balance of power, Bruce Stokes, Director of Global Economic Attitudes at the Pew Research Center, and Richard Wike, Associate Director of the Pew Research’s Global Attitudes Project, presented detailed findings on the image of the U.S. and China in Africa, […]

America's image remains more positive than China's around the world, especially when it comes to how global publics perceive each government's treatment of its own people.