Americans Are Critical of China’s Global Role – as Well as Its Relationship With Russia

A large majority of U.S. adults (83%) continue to have negative views of China, and the share who have very unfavorable views (44%) has increased by 4 percentage points since last year. Around four-in-ten Americans also now describe China as an enemy of the United States, rather than as a […] Read more »

Fox News Poll: Over 8 in 10 say Saudi Arabia’s human rights record is a problem

Over half of voters don’t like how President Biden is handling the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, and an overwhelming majority is troubled by the country’s human rights record. … Meanwhile, more than half disapprove of the job Biden is doing on energy policy (57%), and say they have changed […] Read more »

Americans support a diplomatic boycott of the Winter Olympics

The 2022 Winter Olympics opened today in Beijing, with US athletes in attendance but US government officials absent, out of concern about China’s human rights record. This is the first official US diplomatic boycott since the 1984 games. … Although critics of the US say that the boycott has unnecessarily […] Read more »

A Foreign Policy for the Middle Class—What Americans Think

… As the president wrote in the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance, “America is back. Diplomacy is back. Alliances are back.” Do the American people believe that America is back? And do they support the policies laid out in the Biden administration’s Foreign Policy for the Middle Class? The […] Read more »

Ways Americans want to fight terrorism today

The 20-year war on terrorism brought much debate over how to reduce terrorism, such as the extent and type of U.S. engagements overseas. But today, some of these opinions are informed by the public’s wariness after the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Most are more leery about military action in […] Read more »