How Beijing’s unpopularity is undermining its global ambitions

Lately, China’s world picture has fallen drastically in lots of components of the globe, typically to its lowest degree in a long time.

In Southeast Asia, the place China may have used its rising dominance of commerce integration to bolster its picture, a complete annual survey launched in early 2022 by the Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore discovered that overwhelming majorities of Southeast Asians are “frightened about (China’s) rising regional political and strategic affect.”