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in the opposite direction.

Jinping’s “vision for a responsible - ken in 2017 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland about steering the world economy out Washington loose from one inter

Clearly, this year in particular, American actions have helped to accentuate China’s message.

- tainly put in stark terms America’s image problems in the world today.

approval of US leadership in 2017 was 30 percent, down from 48 percent in 2016, that is, a drop in 18 percentage points from the last year of Barack Obama’s presidency

Of the four countries surveyed stood at the top with 41 percent approval rating. China was at 31 percent, the US at 30 percent and Russia at 27 percent.

and Russia. What separated China and the US was just one point. US approval dropped substantially in 65 countries and areas.

Clearly, this was more a story of American decline than of China’s Daily was concerned, the essence of in this headline: “China beats US in