Opinion poll: This is how the outside world thinks about Trump and his corona handling

The independent American research institute Pew has conducted telephone interviews with 13,273 adults in 13 countries, including Sweden, about, among other things, what they think of the United States, its president and the superpower's handling of the corona pandemic.

The Spaniards, themselves hard hit by the pandemic, are the most positive about the US handling of the coronavirus.

Yet only 20 percent of those who think the country has done a good job.

But significantly more, 54 percent, answer that their own country has done better.

Even more praise is given to the WHO's, the EU's and China's handling of the infection.

The table shows how the respondents in 13 countries look at how successfully the USA, their own country, WHO, the EU and China, respectively, have handled the corona pandemic.

Photo: Screenshot Pew Institute

South Korea of ​​the Paradoxes

At the opposite end is South Korea.

There, only 6 percent of those surveyed believe that the United States has done a good job, while 88 percent are satisfied with their own country's infection control measures.

At the same time, South Korea stands out as the country where by far the most people are positive about the United States as a nation, 59 percent.

Most negative on that point are the Belgians.

Belgium is also the country that is least positive about Trump personally, while the president enjoys the greatest popularity in Japan, where 25 percent answer that they trust him.

The left diagram below shows that Sweden is somewhere in the midfield - both in terms of the view of the United States as a nation and confidence in Trump.

The chart on the left shows how many of the interviewees are positive about the United States as a nation and have confidence in President Trump.

That to the right shows Trump confidence among those who say they support right-wing populist parties compared to other party sympathizers.

Photo: Screenshot Pew

Political domicile decides

The Pew Research Center has also examined how views on Trump differ depending on where on the political map the respondent places himself.

It turns out that supporters of Europe's right-wing populist parties are less negative towards President Donald Trump than people with other party sympathies.

But even among right-wing populists, more people lack confidence in Trump than they do.

The least negative to Trump are sympathizers of Spanish Vox, 45 percent of whom say they trust him.

At the other end are the supporters of the Danish People's Party, where 85 percent lack confidence in the American president.

Economically run

As for the US economic power, according to the survey, only South Korea and Japan now hold the Yankees as number one.

In the rest of the countries, including Canada, a clear majority believes that China has taken the lead in the economic race.

Only in South Korea and Japan do respondents consider the United States to be the world's foremost economic power.

In the rest of the world, China is number one.

Photo: Screenshot Pew Research Institute

The image of a United States that has been economically bypassed would probably have been nuanced if countries in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa had been included in the survey.

But they do not.