For the first time in two decades, more countries view China favorably than the United States — and the consensus class is treating that like a five-alarm fire. A Pew Research Center survey of 36 countries found China preferred over the U.S. in 25 of them, a reversal the establishment press can barely process without reaching for the fainting couch.
Here's why that doesn't matter the way they think it does: global approval was never the point. The New York Times framed the shift as proof of China's
