A survey of more than 10 countries found that while Biden is expected to increase US leadership. UU. On issues such as the fight against COVID-19, confidence is low in both the US. UU. As a nation as to Biden’s ability to fulfill.
President Joe Biden is popular in much of the world and is expected to increase U.S. leadership on issues such as the fight against COVID-19, terrorism and climate change, according to a survey conducted in several countries. But confidence is so low in the US. UU. As a nation as in Biden’s ability to fulfill.
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“We wanted to know: if there is a change of administration and if the US is ready to lead again, will anyone follow it?” Said Michael Bröning, executive director of Friedrich-Ebert’s New York office. Stiftung, the German study center that commissioned the survey. The response from the 12,400 respondents in Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and the US itself was, “Yes, but.”
“Whatever it was in terms of confidence in the US. It has really dissipated a lot,” Bröning said, adding that international confidence levels in the US. UU. They had fallen to those in Russia and China. “That’s a long way from the bright city on a hill.”
When asked by the firm YouGov whether to approve Biden and, separately, whether they believed it would provide more global leadership than his predecessor Donald Trump, respondents showed almost as much enthusiasm as similar polls in 2009, when Barack Obama replaced to George W. Bush — another unpopular US president. UU.- in the White House.
Eighty-nine percent of Kenyans, 73% of Germans and more than 60% of French, Indians, Indonesians, Mexicans and South Africans said they approved of Biden. Even in countries that Trump heavily celebrated while in office — such as India and Brazil — Biden was seen as a welcome change. Only in Russia did respondents disapprove of the change of command in Washington.
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However, faced with the question of whether the new US president. UU. Should it meet, and if it did, specific goals such as reviving the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran or the Paris Agreement on climate change, the poll showed skepticism about whether it would achieve it. Biden signed an order to reinstate the country in the Paris Agreement on Wednesday immediately after the investiture ceremony.
The results match those of another recent survey, this time limited to European nations, published on 19 January by the European Council on External Relations, a group of experts from Brussels. The study revealed that Biden’s popularity abroad was undermined by pessimism, including beliefs that the US political system. UU. It is broken, that Washington can no longer be trusted to provide security for the Allies, and that China will be the largest global power within a decade.
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“Past polls suggested that a change of president really foreshadowed similar changes in attitudes toward the U.S.,” said John Ray, YouGov Blue’s director of polls, who conducted the study. He mentioned the sharp increases seen in both confidence in the new president and in the US when Obama took office in 2009. “This is no longer the case.”
The poll by Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung was conducted online in December, after Biden’s election victory became apparent, according to Ray. YouGov surveyed approximately 1,000 people from each of the 12 countries, and the results were weighted by variables such as age, gender, education, and religion of the respondents.