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Chinese-Americans view Taiwan more favourably than they do China, Pew survey finds
- But recent nationwide research on US-based Asians also shows Chinese-Americans see China more positively compared to other Asian-Americans
- Chinese-Americans found to be only Asian group not to have a mostly favourable impression of their ancestral homeland
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Bochen Hanin Washington
Chinese-Americans hold more positive views of Taiwan than of China, but see China more favourably compared to other Asian-Americans, according to a survey by Pew Research Centre released on Wednesday.
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Chinese-Americans also stood out for being the only Asian group not to have a mostly favourable impression of their ancestral homeland. Just 41 per cent had a “very” or “somewhat” favourable impression of China, according to the survey of US-based Asian-identifying adults.
In fact, Chinese-descent respondents saw the US more favourably than any other location in a list that included China, India, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam.
The survey found that a mere 20 per cent of Asian-identifying respondents in the US held a favourable opinion of China, compared to 52 per cent who had an unfavourable view and 26 per cent holding neither opinion.
Among non-Chinese Asians, favourable views towards China matched those of the general American population, according to an earlier Pew survey done in March. Only 14 per cent of Americans overall held a favourable view of China, it found.
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Pew described its survey of 7,006 Asian-Americans as nationally representative and the largest of its kind. It was conducted between July 5, 2022 and January 27 this year, with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 per cent.
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