Skeptical and Concerned - How Germans View China

Two representative opinion polls conducted in 2020 and 2022 show that the German population supports a more principled China policy. At the same time, two-thirds of respondents identify as the policy priority cooperation with China to solve global challenges - narrowly followed by cyber security and human rights concerns. Although this approach resembles Germany’s new China Strategy, the public is not yet convinced that the issue is being effectively addressed. Channeling public support to back concrete action is key for the Germany's China policy

Evaluating Public Support for Chinese Vendors in Europe's 5G Infrastructure

Germany is considering banning equipment made by Chinese companies like tech giant Huawei - in its 5G mobile infrastructure. A revised 2021 IT Security Act failed to reduce China's 59 percent market share. A representative opinion poll, shows only 30.8 percent of Germans want 5G cooperation with China. Across 11 European countries, skepticism is equal, with only 31.8 percent approval - though this varies greatly from country to country

Chinese views of the world at the time of the Russia-Ukraine war

This report is a result of a large-scale online survey of public opinion in Mainland China, conducted between 9-23 March 2022,3 with a research sample (N=3039) representative of the Chinese population with respect to gender, age (18-65 years), and country region. This survey is part of a broader research project ‘Sinophone Borderlands – Interaction at the Edges’, funded by the European Regional Development Fund. As part of this project, a series of public opinion surveys have been conducted in various parts of the world. We sum up some of the findings from the Mainland China survey here, especially in relation to Chinese views of Russia, the US, and international affairs. More outcomes from this research project will follow in future, focusing on a number of more concrete issues. Overall, Chinese respondents expressed very positive views of Russia and very negative views of the US. In fact, of the 25 countries respondents were asked about, Russia was the most positively perceived country, while the US was the most negatively perceived. As our survey was collected at the height of the Chinese public and media attention towards the Russia-Ukraine war (and before the escalation of the Covid-19 in China in late March), these results suggest that the Chinese public was not disturbed by the Russian aggression, and even appeared to support Russia. This is consistent with available qualitative studies of Chinese official and social media, which show how Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been portrayed not as an act of unprovoked aggression against a sovereign nation, but as a rightful response to US and NATO’s “bullying” of Russia. Russia appears to be strongly supported in resisting what is redefined as American aggression