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May 20, 2020

Americans Give Higher Ratings to South Korea and Germany Than U.S. for Dealing With Coronavirus

Trust in information from EU especially high among those with more education

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Americans Give Higher Ratings to South Korea and Germany Than U.S. for Dealing With Coronavirus
Americans give China, Italy low ratings for coronavirus response
Few trust coronavirus information from Chinese government, believe China has handled outbreak well
Growing partisan divisions over U.S.’s role in solving world problems
Stark divides by party and ideology in views about the coronavirus outbreak, its international implications
Most Americans think the U.S. can learn from other countries about how to slow coronavirus
Majority of Republicans now say U.S. does too much to solve world problems
Americans say focus should be more on own problems, not helping other nations
Evaluations of U.S. COVID-19 response heavily colored by partisanship
Broad disapproval of China’s response to COVID-19
Wide partisan gap on how U.S. has dealt with coronavirus; smaller differences in views of other countries’ responses
Those who say U.S. can learn from other countries are more likely to think other nations are handling outbreak well
Americans are divided on WHO’s coronavirus response
Few Americans trust information about the coronavirus outbreak from the Chinese government
Younger adults and those with more education are more likely to trust information from the WHO
Conservative Republicans less likely to trust information from WHO, EU, Chinese government
Many think China’s global influence will decline after the coronavirus outbreak
Democrats and those with more education especially likely to believe U.S. influence will decline
Age, partisan divides in views of China’s global power after coronavirus outbreak
Majorities among both parties think the EU’s international influence will be unaffected by the coronavirus outbreak
American Trends Panel recruitment surveys
Weighting dimensions
Unweighted sample sizes and the error attributable to sampling

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