Poll: Major allies think it's better to depend on China than on the US under Trump

[muriel_volestrangler]

New poll: Trump is transforming America’s status on the world stage — for the worse

Four key allies are growing wary of the United States — and disruption from President Donald Trump appears to be to blame, according to a new poll.

Results from the poll from Politico, released Sunday, found that a growing portion of the public in Canada, France, Germany and the United Kingdom increasingly believe that China is a more dependable partner than the United States.

The poll, however, revealed that movement toward China appears to be driven by Trump’s policies, and not stability of the geopolitical rival.

According to the poll, the majority of respondents in both Canada and Germany believe that the United States has become harder to depend on — while 38% in France and 42% in the United Kingdom said the same.

https://www.nj.com/politics/2026/03/new-poll-trump-is-transforming-americas-status-on-the-world-stage-for-the-worse.html

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/15/trump-china-europe-closer-ties-00823457

Figures (graphics from neither source will show here on DU):
Question was to choose from:
"It is better to depend on China than on the US under Donald Trump"
"It is better to depend on the US under Donald Trump, than on China"
or don't know
Canada: 57% China, 23% US, 20% Don't know
France: 34% China, 25% US, 40% Don't know
Germany: 40% China, 24% US, 36% Don't know
UK: 42% China, 34% US, 24% Don't know

[GPV]

1. From super power to stoopid power.

[malaise]

2. Duh!

Rec

[Irish_Dem]

3. China's plan to become the sole global superpower is working out quite well.

They are rising to power.
The US is falling.

It is just as well, the US no longer deserves to be a world leader.
The values of greed, corruption, hatred, racism, violence, dictatorship
are not worthy of global admiration or support.

[OC375]

4. Taiwan

When Taiwan eventually gets the Ukraine treatment from China, they may reconsider.

[themaguffin]

5. this is tragic and dip shit is rapidly forcing a US decline and China's influence on so many fronts

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. China was fading economically by 2024.

Biden had the economy surging back to health after COVID. FOX Business network was choking on the figures.

Trump single handedly, turned away a ton of business. And forced his traditional allies to turn to China, and in so doing, helping them to have a new surge.

China is a corrupt, dictatorial, human rights abusing, closed system. But one of the aspects of that is that they are stable, and predictable. The USA is not. *Trump is not.

[womanofthehills]

7. China sends 5000 solar panels to Cuba

Plus a months worth of rice for every person in Cuba as Trump is into starving the little children. We are so screwed as how the world looks at us because we have an evil psychopath as our president. Even Jeffrey Epstein said Trump was one of the most evil people he ever met - called him Borderline.

“In the midst of the current energy crisis in #Cuba, the installation of 5,000 solar systems donated by the People's Republic of China is underway across the country.”

Link to tweet

?s=46&t=YZgyyp4w_z7vW3neKxa6cQ

[Bettie]

9. The bigger issue is whether the world can ever trust us again...

with our system, any election cycle could bring a normal person or a psychopath and the flaw in our system is that the "rules" have no enforcement mechanism.

I mean, this giant orange turd has been able to do pretty much anything he chooses and he does whatever he pleases like a monkey flinging feces (but with a lot less thought than that).

[DFW]

8. Politico must not be talking to the same Germans and French that I talk to

I live in Germany, am in France once a week, and speak both German and French.

Obviously, just about everyone I talk to hates Trump, and feels that the USA has become unreliable under his regime. But they also maintain a deeply seated mistrust of China, and since their leaders tend to be dictators for life with an unambiguous ambition toward taking Taiwan and ultimate (long-term) world domination, the Europeans know that if we end up with poor leadership (Cheney, Trump, e.g.), it is temporary (Bannon notwithstanding). The EU loved Clinton, Obama and Biden. There has been no Chinese—or Russian—leader about whom they felt that way in the last 40 years.