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More people in 25 of 36 surveyed countries now hold favorable views of China than of the United States, marking a reversal from the longstanding U.S. global favorability.
Two Yale law professors published an op-ed in The Guardian on Wednesday arguing that the U.S.-led world order is in decline and proposing a four-point anti-war agenda built on mutual restraint among great powers in a multipolar world.
More people in 25 of 36 surveyed countries and territories now hold favorable views of China than of the United States, according to a new Pew Research Center poll released Wednesday, marking the first time in roughly 20 years that China has been viewed more positively than the U.S. in Pew's global tracking.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, rising to power on a backlash to President Trump's talk of making Canada the 51st state, leveraged a network of European leaders cultivated during his tenure as Bank of England governor to reduce allied dependence on the United States, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation that drew on interviews with heads of government, ministers, and senior aides. Trump had earlier threatened then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau with scrapping the 1908 U.S.-Canada border agreement and proposed splitting Canada into two U.S. states over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, according to people familiar with the matter.