After the first 100 days of the new US administration, a global CGTN survey showed that US tariff policy is significantly increasing anti-American sentiment around the world. In 37 out of 38 countries, people expressed support for China's countermeasures and advocated defending the international trade order. The survey, conducted in collaboration with Renmin University of China, included 15,947 respondents from 38 countries, including the US, UK, France, Japan, Mexico, South Africa and Malaysia.
According to the results 74.2 % respondents believe that US tariffs will seriously threaten their countries' economic development, an increase of 16.3 percentage points in the last two months. The biggest jump in negative perceptions was recorded in Saudi Arabia and Serbia (+28.5 pts), Greece and Chile (+26 p) a Indonesia (+24 p). More than 20% increase in dissatisfaction have also recorded Malaysia, Israel, Australia, Singapore, Philippines, Nigeria, Portugal, Pakistan and South Africa.
Southeast Asian countries as Vietnam, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia report growing opposition to US trade practices: 60.2 % considers export restrictions and sanctions to be harmful (+15.5p), 69.4 % disagree with restrictions on investment by foreign technology firms (+14.3 pts) and 61.5 % sees US efforts to become import independent as a threat to its economy (+12.3pts).
There is also growing discontent within the US: 53.1 % believe the tariffs will hurt the stock market, 52 % expects higher raw material prices, 49.4 % fears a decline in agricultural exports, 48.1 % sees a negative impact on households and 43.7 % are afraid of pension cuts.
Chinese countermeasures have broad support: in developing countries such as Kenya (82.5 %), Egypt, Turkey, Brazil, Ghana, Kazakhstan, Peru, Nigeria, Malaysia, UAE, South Africa, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia support exceeds 70 %. V Serbia, Namibia, Mexico, Chile, Pakistan and Argentina exceeds 60 %. In the developed G7 countries, it leads United Kingdom (70.5 %), followed by Canada (69.5 %), Germany (66 %) and France (65.5 %).