A Majority of Americans Favor Expanding Natural Gas Production To Export to Europe
Yet renewable sources, like wind and solar, remain Americans’ overall priority for domestic production.
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Yet renewable sources, like wind and solar, remain Americans’ overall priority for domestic production.
A large majority of Americans (78%) say tensions between China and Taiwan are at least a somewhat serious problem for the United States.
Despite the many depressing stories dominating the international news cycle, there is also a note of positivity among survey respondents in views of the UN, the benefits of international cooperation for solving problems and the importance of common values for bringing nations together.
Americans’ views on foreign policy priorities differ based on a number of factors, including their attitudes toward international engagement.
57% of Americans express some sympathy with both Israelis and Palestinians, including 26% who say their sympathies lie equally with both groups.
As the U.S. and Germany prepare to gain new leadership, their relationship remains unbalanced in the minds of their citizenries. Americans see Germany as a partner on many foreign policy issues, but Germans mostly do not.
Americans are now more likely to expect foreign election interference than they were in October 2018, when 67% expected it.
Even as they age, younger generations in the U.S. tend to be more favorably disposed to groups, leaders and countries beyond their border.
International relations experts’ assessment of the current crises facing the world are often at odds with those of the U.S. general public.
Americans are much more likely than Germans to see U.S. bases in Germany as important for their country’s national security.
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