TOPLINE 


Other countries’ opinions of the U.S. have improved by nine points on average since President Joe Biden took office—and in many cases by double digits—a new Morning Consult poll finds, as the Democratic president appears to have noticeably improved the U.S.’s global standing in his first 100 days after it eroded under President Donald Trump.


 

President Joe Biden with Japanese Prime Minister

President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga at the White House on April 16, 2021.


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KEY FACTS




The country whose net favorability rating of the U.S. most improved between Jan. 20 and April 25 was Germany, where it improved by 47 points, followed by Japan (net change of 39 points) and France (37 points).


 



The country with the highest opinion of the U.S. is Brazil, where 74% of respondents view it favorably (versus 69% on Jan. 20), according to the poll, which was conducted between April 22 and 25 with an average of 1,100 adult respondents in each country.


The other countries with a double-digit increase in how they view the U.S. were Australia (net increase of 21 points), Brazil (10 points), Canada (32 points), Italy (23 points), Mexico (15 points), Spain (26 points) and the United Kingdom (30 points).




 



The smallest increases were in Russia, whose view of the U.S. only rose by six points, and India, where it rose by three points.




China and South Korea were the only countries whose view of the U.S. has worsened since Biden took office: the U.S.’s favorability rating went down by two points in South Korea and 13 points in China, which has the least positive view of the U.S. of any country (17% view favorably).




The U.S.’s own opinion of itself improved by 10 points, and 78% of respondents now view the country favorably.


 




CRUCIAL QUOTE


“International opinion of the United States, in many nations, is genuinely contingent on American actions,” University of Kansas professor Dr. David Farber, who edited a book on international perceptions of the U.S., told Morning Consult. “People in many nations around the world are, I think, hopeful, that the election of Joe Biden marks a rejection of Trump’s ‘America First’ bullying and go-it-alone international policies and a return to a more collaborative, pro-democracy approach to international affairs.”


 

KEY BACKGROUND


Morning Consult’s poll is in line with other polls that show Biden’s popularity around the world: A previous Morning Consult poll found similar rises in countries’ approval of the U.S. when Biden was first elected, and polls from Pew Research Center and Ipsos showed many people abroad—particularly in western Europe—far preferred Biden in a head-to-head matchup against Trump. Previous polling showed that the U.S.’s reputation in the eyes of the world suffered under Trump’s presidency, including right after he took office, with a Pew Research poll in July 2017 finding the global view of the U.S. dropped from a 64% favorability rating at the end of Barack Obama’s presidency to 49% at the beginning of Trump’s presidency. Those ratings declined even further amid the Trump administration’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic, with Pew reporting that opinions of the U.S. fell to record lows in 2020 in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia.


 


 


 


"You don't consider that after the Afiganistan blunder No of the world trusts us?"


If anything, I applaud Biden's ability to make the hard choice to get Americans out of Afghanistan, period.


Bush couldn't do it. Obama couldn't do it. Trump couldn't do it, but he probably didn't care. 


Biden got us out. Was it 100% sucessful? We're out and it. Average annual fatalites- 74. American fatalities in the withdrawal, 21. We suffered 21 fatalities in 2019 and America was still mired in our latest 'forever war'. After we killed bin Laden, we should have left them to their tribal chaos- we had nno dog in any of their fights.


Biden took the hard choice and has saved American lives. Trummp didn't, couldn't, so please keep bringing this up- it highlights yet another Trummp failure.