More people around the world now favour China over the US, Pew study suggests

Separately, the centre found that the median favourable opinion of the US across 20 countries had steadily declined in recent years, while the median favourable opinion of China had been rising.

Researchers also found that favourable views of China had increased in more than a third of the countries surveyed in recent years, based on an expanded dataset including the US.

The research centre found that in 25 of the 36 countries, there were more people who had favourable views of China than of the US.