A recent output of the Central European Institute of Asian Studies (CEIAS) has released and analyzed extensive survey data in a new paper, offering crucial insights as to the attitudes of Europeans with regard to China in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The survey, conducted in September and October 2020 by the Sinophone Borderlands project at Palacký University Olomouc, sampled public opinion on China in 13 European countries. The polled countries include: Czechia, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom.
A primary outcome of the analysis is a comparative report where opinions about China, its position on the global stage vis-a-vis other powers, and a broad view of international evaluations of China following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The full report is available below. Country by country data is available here from CEIAS.
This paper was originally published by CEIAS and is published here with the consent of the authors.
