Current Events > Canada Chinese citizens' least favorite country, according to state media survey

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https://news.yahoo.com/canada-chinese-citizens-least-favorite-213932860.html

The poll, conducted by the Global Times Research Center with market survey firm DATA100, gathered 2,148 responses across 16 Chinese cities from Dec. 10-15, 2021.

The survey showed Canada at the bottom of the ranking, with only 0.4% of respondents saying they like the North American country.

Singapore, on the other hand, received a positive response from 14% of participants, emerging at the top of the list, alongside China itself. The two most popular countries were followed by Germany, France, the U.S., Russia and Maldives.

Singapore was also the country Chinese people said they would like to visit the most (17.1%), followed by Maldives and France. Previous data gathered since 2018 reportedly showed that the island city-state did not even crack the top six up until now.

Japan, which ranked No. 1 in 2019 and 2020, fell to sixth place in 2021.

The poll results reflect ongoing tensions between Ottawa and Beijing. On Dec. 25, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged Western countries to stand united against China, claiming that the East Asian state has been playing them against each other.

Weve been competing, and China has been from time to time very cleverly playing us off each other in an open market competitive way, Trudeau told Global News. We need to do a better job of working together and standing strong so that China cant, you know, play the angles and divide us one against the other.

Canadians also seem to feel similarly about the Chinese. A survey by Research Co. and Glacier Media found that 68% of Canadians have an unfavorable opinion of China.

Canada and Chinas relationship began to sour in 2018 with the arrest of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou on a U.S. extradition warrant. In an apparent retaliation, the Two Michaels Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor were detained in China on national security charges.

In September 2021, Meng reached a deal with U.S. prosecutors, and Kovrig and Spavor were subsequently released.

In early December, Canada also joined the U.S. and other Western allies in declaring a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics. The stance was taken in protest of Chinas alleged human rights abuses, most notably in the northwestern region of Xinjiang.

We are extremely concerned by the repeated human rights violations by the Chinese government, Trudeau told reporters, according to Politico. I don't think the decision by Canada or by many other countries to choose to not send diplomatic representation to the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics is going to come as a surprise to China. We have been very clear over the past many years of our deep concerns around human rights violations.

Shortly after, the Chinese Embassy in Canada responded to the move, calling it a purely political show, according to the Global Times.

https://imgur.com/MXeLLKh

That poll is over 2 weeks old.

Canada is a parasite

A country where the citizens are under close monitoring and control by the government, claim to hate a country that the government recently had a feud with? No one could have seen this coming!

The top result is 14% of people liking a country? lol

Actually I was looking at the original Global Times survey and the yahoo article misquotes it in a pretty important way. The question was asking people their single favorite country, not just which ones they like. Which is why the top result (Singapore) is only 14%.

So I think the most likely explanation is just that most people asked forget that Canada even exists, not that they actively dislike it.

Wooo!

Feeling proud of this today lol

Background_Guy posted...

Actually I was looking at the original Global Times survey and the yahoo article misquotes it in a pretty important way. The question was asking people their single favorite country, not just which ones they like. Which is why the top result (Singapore) is only 14%.

So I think the most likely explanation is just that most people asked forget that Canada even exists, not that they actively dislike it.

yahoo news posting misleading information? well i never

They're just mad at Trudeau for waking up to the evils of their government. I don't like Trudeau, but him getting a clue about the CCP is a net positive for the world.

*Looks at demographics of Vancouver* yep Im sure the Chinese hate Canada and definitely arent fleeing their country .

Materus posted...

*Looks at demographics of Vancouver*

If you haven't left China yet, your options are:

1. Hate Canada
2. Get escorted to some labor camp at about three in the morning.

Good. We don't want to be liked by CCP.

I dunno what things are like in covid times since I haven't gone outside much in years but I used to see a lot of chinese tourists here

maybe this is just recent. or also maybe there are just so many potential chinese tourists that even a small % of them feels like a lot of people

But they love buying property there

kuwab0 posted...

But they love buying property there

Ayy got em

Wait...

Love the survey but disappointed they ranked US so high, not good

So then why the fuck are they all coming here?

Why isnt their answer Taiwan?

Chicken posted...

Why isnt their answer Taiwan?

Taiwan is more than likely in the top 10, China is more popular and influential ofc

Chicken posted...

Why isnt their answer Taiwan?

They likely consider Taiwan to be China.

Zaltera posted...

They likely consider Taiwan to be China.

They absolutely do. Or at least act like they do. It's illegal in China to talk about Taiwan being its own country