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The Chinese Like Us. They Really Really Like Us.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

There's a great scene in the movie Dumb and Dumber where Jim Carey is seeking a date with Lauren Holley: Carey: "What are my chances [of a date with you]?" Holley: "Not good." Carey: "You mean not good like one out of a hundred?" Holley: "I'd say more like one out of a million." Carey: [after a long, thoughtful pause] "So you're telling me there's still a chance?" Pew's recently released and amazingly comprehensive Global Attitudes Survey [pdf] has 1/3 of China's population calling the US an enemy. Call me Careyesque, but I think that is pretty good. 41% of Chinese view the US favorably, as compared with only 31% in Germany and 33% in Spain. To see how others are analyzing/digesting the report, check out the following: -- "Chinese Want to LIve the Australian Dream?" -- "China's going strong! Me, not so much." -- "New Pew Report of Chinese Attitudes." -- "Notes on Pew's Global Attitudes Survey" Lots of good stuff in the report.

Full post as published by China Law Blog on July 24, 2008 (boomark / email).