A global survey found people in most countries see the United States as the biggest threat to the world, and prefer China over the US. These are the results of the EU-backed Democracy Perception Index
This global survey shows that across the Global South and many non-Western countries, China is increasingly seen as a representative of development, infrastructure, trade, industrial capacity, and a multipolar order. The United States, by contrast, is increasingly associated with war, sanctions, military bases, financial hegemony, Israel/Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, and other sources of instability.
But the more important question is: why are America’s instruments of hegemony losing legitimacy, and why are China’s industrial capacity, development financing, infrastructure capability, and state organizational capacity becoming another form of international attraction?
The reason is that the foundation of global political legitimacy is changing. In the past, legitimacy came from ideology, military protection, and the dollar system. Today, it increasingly comes from development capacity, industrial capacity, infrastructure capability, policy stability, and the principle of non-interference.
The United States still possesses enormous hard power. But it provides fewer and fewer public goods to the world, while generating more and more systemic risks. China’s appeal does not come from propaganda. It comes from its ability to provide trade, infrastructure, manufacturing, financing, and a development pathway.
Moreover, the United States promotes democracy abroad, but its domestic politics is increasingly controlled by capital, the military-industrial complex, finance, and technology oligarchs. This is also being recognized by more and more countries. The institutional superiority that America once claimed has indeed been significantly eroded and damaged.
The United States actually does not promote democracy - rule of the people - abroad. What it does it to hijack existing democratic mechanisms for oligarchic and autarchic purposes, and to promote establishments of such mechanisms only where it believes it can hijack them. Thus for example they gladly hijack democracy to control Kenya or Nigeria for example....but in Arabia they want NO part of any democracy - they know the masses would not go with their puppets there.
For example, a couple of years ago, there was a great article, "The scam behind ‘free elections’" by Andreína Chávez that mentioned how the imperialists strategically aimed to hijack democracy in Venezuela by backing Corrina Machado:
And the US itself does not actually have democracy, despite holding elections. It is in fact a plutocracy, an oligarchy disguised with the facade of elections, and had been so long before the orange one showed up:
THE HUMAN COST OF U.S. IMPERIALISM SINCE THE VIETNAM ERA
—MORE THAN 55 MILLION DEATHS
A recent study published in The Lancet Global Health estimated that sanctions imposed between 1971 and 2021 were associated with approximately 38 million excess deaths worldwide.
Separate from sanctions, U.S. wars, occupations, proxy conflicts, and support for allied dictatorships have resulted in tens of millions more deaths. While many of the figures below are estimates and some are contested, the overall scale of the destruction is not. Millions more undoubtedly died from the indirect consequences of war, famine, disease, displacement, economic collapse, and social devastation flowing from these conflicts and interventions.
U.S.-CAUSED DEATHS
—Sanctions, 1971–2021: approximately 38 million deaths.
—Vietnam: approximately 3.3 million deaths.
—Cambodia: approximately 1.5–3 million deaths.
—Laos: more than 200,000 deaths.
—Indonesia, 1965–66: approximately 500,000–1 million deaths.
—East Timor: approximately 100,000–200,000 deaths.
—Bangladesh, 1971: approximately 300,000–3 million deaths.
—Guatemala: approximately 200,000 deaths.
—El Salvador: approximately 75,000 deaths.
—Nicaragua, including the Somoza dictatorship and Contra war: approximately 80,000–100,000 deaths.
—Operation Condor and the military dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil: approximately 50,000–80,000 deaths and disappearances.
—The post-2001 "War on Terror": approximately 4.5–4.6 million deaths.
• Afghanistan: approximately 900,000–1.5 million deaths.
• Iraq: approximately 1–2.4 million deaths.
• Pakistan: approximately 200,000–500,000 deaths.
• Syria: approximately 500,000–700,000 deaths.
• Yemen: approximately 377,000 deaths.
• Libya: approximately 30,000–250,000 deaths.
• Somalia: approximately 300,000–700,000 deaths.
—Congo wars: approximately 5.4 million deaths.
—Southern Africa, including Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and apartheid destabilization campaigns: approximately 1–1.5 million deaths.
—Western Sahara: approximately 20,000–40,000 deaths.
Additional deaths occurred in the Philippines, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and other countries affected by U.S.-backed counterterrorism operations, drone campaigns, proxy wars, and military interventions.
Additional U.S.-supported dictatorships, occupations, and proxy conflicts include Haiti, Honduras, the Philippines, Iran under the Shah, Zaire under Mobutu, Liberia under Samuel Doe, Sudan, South Korea, Taiwan under Kuomintang rule, Iraq before 2003, Libya after 2011, and numerous Cold War client regimes throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Estimates for these cases range from hundreds of thousands to several million additional deaths.
Even using conservative assumptions, the cumulative toll of sanctions, wars, occupations, proxy forces, and regimes armed, financed, trained, protected, or politically sustained by Washington exceeds 55 million deaths.
This figure does not include the full mortality resulting from hunger, disease, underdevelopment, displacement, environmental destruction, and state collapse. Including the broader human consequences of U.S.-supported dictatorships, civil wars, sanctions, and economic coercion would raise the total substantially higher.
Nor does this accounting include the ongoing destruction of Gaza, carried out with U.S. weapons, military assistance, diplomatic protection, and financial support.
Measured over the past half century, the human cost of American imperial power is in the tens of millions of lives.
I see my country ( Nigeria ) being on the wrong side of things in 2 key areas ( support for america and little optimism for the future ) and as a Nigerian living in Nigeria.. I can confirm this is absolutely spot on
I'm ashamed that my people are still colonized mentally through the imported religions and still look at america as the beacon of all things good cuz of our feasting on their entertainment and propaganda and so have yet to see the country for what it truly is
Then the present administration governing the country has been absolutely shambolic and has destroyed any optimism for the future.. and yet the fucker is still gunning for reelection next year when he would have been impeached in saner climes by now
My country people fall my hand I swear ( disappointed me )
Most Western people now do not want to live in a Chinese surveillance state. But we realise that the Chinese are not so stupid to try to bomb or blackmail the whole world into submission to enrich a handfull of crazy billionaires. The Chinese are a danger for the surounding countries, because they are also an empire who want to consolidate their power and influence and they are a power in search for resources and pose in that way a threat for western countries in their hunger for resources. But the USA has allways choose to use war and violent coups to protect their power and now you have a regime that does it without restraint and without respect for alliances. Scary and criminal
Ops, surveillance state, who? Israel you meant, if any surveillance China does is internal, Israel and US are doing that in foreign countries since ages to control through money and blackmailing the politicians. And if they can't they kill them or make them disappear..
US politics under Trump looks unstable and unpredictable, damaging trust in its leadership. Allies question its reliability as policies shift with politics at home. This weakens America’s global standing. At the same time, the world is moving toward a multipolar system, with more power shifting to China, Russia, and regional blocs rather than one dominant US-led order.
Capitalism teaches us its morals. Avarice is a good trait. Arrogance is a strong position. Ego-centricism is the best we can do so embrace Ayn Rand, cowardiceness is also built into the capitalist ideology. There is little courage to confront ones' own views or that of others. As for empathy, that went out the window with crass individualism born from egocentric thinking in a sociocentric culture. The values of capitalism or hucksterism are necessary for the economic system to work. The values and dispositions of the critical mind are receding and the result is confusion, bafflement, uncritical thought and self delusion.
Values of thinking like empathy, courage, humility, the ability to see the world from disparate points of view, giving and caring cannot exist in a toxic petri-dish like the capitalist system all based on 'self'. We do not learn these values in schools ut on the battle field and now more than ever for we are living behind enemy lines.
BRICS nations are deepening cooperation in agriculture focusing on climate resilience, fertilizer security, food-price stability, and digital traceability.
This is more than trade.
It is about control over food systems in an increasingly uncertain world.
As global volatility rises, countries are rethinking how food is produced, tracked, and distributed.
Agriculture is no longer just an economic sector.
It is becoming a strategic pillar of sovereignty.
The future of global trade will not only be shaped by energy and technology
but by who controls food, inputs, and supply chains.
So important what you wrote. For capitalism is dying. Now, it can be its own grave digger and go the way of Rome, for it will be far worse there are now 8 billion people on the planet, or we can come together and change it as you mentioned is happening.
But you are right the cocoon, the interregnum, is moving.
This is so true. I live in Asia and have visited China. I have also walked the streets of Buffalo and San Fran. To paraphrase the Orange pedophile, both shithole cities. Both were great cities but since the tax money heads to israel, to buy weapons, to fatten politicians and the ogliarchs instead of fixing americas crumbling infrastructure, America is a shithole country. China is unbelievable. Beautiful cities, intelligent people, solving problematic climate change and pollution. Americas orange dictator and his corrupt party care not for the disasters caused by global warming. If China stopped selling their products, your shelves would be like mother Hubbards.
This global survey shows that across the Global South and many non-Western countries, China is increasingly seen as a representative of development, infrastructure, trade, industrial capacity, and a multipolar order. The United States, by contrast, is increasingly associated with war, sanctions, military bases, financial hegemony, Israel/Gaza, Iran, Ukraine, and other sources of instability.
But the more important question is: why are America’s instruments of hegemony losing legitimacy, and why are China’s industrial capacity, development financing, infrastructure capability, and state organizational capacity becoming another form of international attraction?
The reason is that the foundation of global political legitimacy is changing. In the past, legitimacy came from ideology, military protection, and the dollar system. Today, it increasingly comes from development capacity, industrial capacity, infrastructure capability, policy stability, and the principle of non-interference.
The United States still possesses enormous hard power. But it provides fewer and fewer public goods to the world, while generating more and more systemic risks. China’s appeal does not come from propaganda. It comes from its ability to provide trade, infrastructure, manufacturing, financing, and a development pathway.
Moreover, the United States promotes democracy abroad, but its domestic politics is increasingly controlled by capital, the military-industrial complex, finance, and technology oligarchs. This is also being recognized by more and more countries. The institutional superiority that America once claimed has indeed been significantly eroded and damaged.
The United States actually does not promote democracy - rule of the people - abroad. What it does it to hijack existing democratic mechanisms for oligarchic and autarchic purposes, and to promote establishments of such mechanisms only where it believes it can hijack them. Thus for example they gladly hijack democracy to control Kenya or Nigeria for example....but in Arabia they want NO part of any democracy - they know the masses would not go with their puppets there.
For example, a couple of years ago, there was a great article, "The scam behind ‘free elections’" by Andreína Chávez that mentioned how the imperialists strategically aimed to hijack democracy in Venezuela by backing Corrina Machado:
https://mronline.org/2024/04/19/the-scam-behind-free-elections/
https://venezuelanalysis.com/columns/the-scam-behind-free-elections/
And the US itself does not actually have democracy, despite holding elections. It is in fact a plutocracy, an oligarchy disguised with the facade of elections, and had been so long before the orange one showed up:
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746
https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_theories_of_american_politics.doc
https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-research/policycast/oligarchy-open-what-happens-now-us-forced-confront-its-plutocracy
US have always, since last century, promoted, organized and financed terrorism abroad.
US has been made by Criminals for Criminals, the right name for their country is United Criminals of America
‘the new american century’ has not lasted 30 years and the rest of the world is sick of America and is banding together against it
well done
THE HUMAN COST OF U.S. IMPERIALISM SINCE THE VIETNAM ERA
—MORE THAN 55 MILLION DEATHS
A recent study published in The Lancet Global Health estimated that sanctions imposed between 1971 and 2021 were associated with approximately 38 million excess deaths worldwide.
Separate from sanctions, U.S. wars, occupations, proxy conflicts, and support for allied dictatorships have resulted in tens of millions more deaths. While many of the figures below are estimates and some are contested, the overall scale of the destruction is not. Millions more undoubtedly died from the indirect consequences of war, famine, disease, displacement, economic collapse, and social devastation flowing from these conflicts and interventions.
U.S.-CAUSED DEATHS
—Sanctions, 1971–2021: approximately 38 million deaths.
—Vietnam: approximately 3.3 million deaths.
—Cambodia: approximately 1.5–3 million deaths.
—Laos: more than 200,000 deaths.
—Indonesia, 1965–66: approximately 500,000–1 million deaths.
—East Timor: approximately 100,000–200,000 deaths.
—Bangladesh, 1971: approximately 300,000–3 million deaths.
—Guatemala: approximately 200,000 deaths.
—El Salvador: approximately 75,000 deaths.
—Nicaragua, including the Somoza dictatorship and Contra war: approximately 80,000–100,000 deaths.
—Operation Condor and the military dictatorships of Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Bolivia, and Brazil: approximately 50,000–80,000 deaths and disappearances.
—The post-2001 "War on Terror": approximately 4.5–4.6 million deaths.
• Afghanistan: approximately 900,000–1.5 million deaths.
• Iraq: approximately 1–2.4 million deaths.
• Pakistan: approximately 200,000–500,000 deaths.
• Syria: approximately 500,000–700,000 deaths.
• Yemen: approximately 377,000 deaths.
• Libya: approximately 30,000–250,000 deaths.
• Somalia: approximately 300,000–700,000 deaths.
—Congo wars: approximately 5.4 million deaths.
—Southern Africa, including Angola, Mozambique, Namibia, and apartheid destabilization campaigns: approximately 1–1.5 million deaths.
—Western Sahara: approximately 20,000–40,000 deaths.
Additional deaths occurred in the Philippines, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, and other countries affected by U.S.-backed counterterrorism operations, drone campaigns, proxy wars, and military interventions.
Additional U.S.-supported dictatorships, occupations, and proxy conflicts include Haiti, Honduras, the Philippines, Iran under the Shah, Zaire under Mobutu, Liberia under Samuel Doe, Sudan, South Korea, Taiwan under Kuomintang rule, Iraq before 2003, Libya after 2011, and numerous Cold War client regimes throughout Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Estimates for these cases range from hundreds of thousands to several million additional deaths.
Even using conservative assumptions, the cumulative toll of sanctions, wars, occupations, proxy forces, and regimes armed, financed, trained, protected, or politically sustained by Washington exceeds 55 million deaths.
This figure does not include the full mortality resulting from hunger, disease, underdevelopment, displacement, environmental destruction, and state collapse. Including the broader human consequences of U.S.-supported dictatorships, civil wars, sanctions, and economic coercion would raise the total substantially higher.
Nor does this accounting include the ongoing destruction of Gaza, carried out with U.S. weapons, military assistance, diplomatic protection, and financial support.
Measured over the past half century, the human cost of American imperial power is in the tens of millions of lives.
Better with Brics than with the PedoWest.
I’m actively researching ex-patriating. It’s not too late, yet. This country is in a near-free fall death spiral.
I see my country ( Nigeria ) being on the wrong side of things in 2 key areas ( support for america and little optimism for the future ) and as a Nigerian living in Nigeria.. I can confirm this is absolutely spot on
I'm ashamed that my people are still colonized mentally through the imported religions and still look at america as the beacon of all things good cuz of our feasting on their entertainment and propaganda and so have yet to see the country for what it truly is
Then the present administration governing the country has been absolutely shambolic and has destroyed any optimism for the future.. and yet the fucker is still gunning for reelection next year when he would have been impeached in saner climes by now
My country people fall my hand I swear ( disappointed me )
Most Western people now do not want to live in a Chinese surveillance state. But we realise that the Chinese are not so stupid to try to bomb or blackmail the whole world into submission to enrich a handfull of crazy billionaires. The Chinese are a danger for the surounding countries, because they are also an empire who want to consolidate their power and influence and they are a power in search for resources and pose in that way a threat for western countries in their hunger for resources. But the USA has allways choose to use war and violent coups to protect their power and now you have a regime that does it without restraint and without respect for alliances. Scary and criminal
Ops, surveillance state, who? Israel you meant, if any surveillance China does is internal, Israel and US are doing that in foreign countries since ages to control through money and blackmailing the politicians. And if they can't they kill them or make them disappear..
As a US citizen I believe the same thing!
China is tightening the noose on Taiwan, the epicenter of the worlds AI manufacturing.
US politics under Trump looks unstable and unpredictable, damaging trust in its leadership. Allies question its reliability as policies shift with politics at home. This weakens America’s global standing. At the same time, the world is moving toward a multipolar system, with more power shifting to China, Russia, and regional blocs rather than one dominant US-led order.
The USA seem to be the most racist of all of them. Who thinks the USA is the future?
Capitalism teaches us its morals. Avarice is a good trait. Arrogance is a strong position. Ego-centricism is the best we can do so embrace Ayn Rand, cowardiceness is also built into the capitalist ideology. There is little courage to confront ones' own views or that of others. As for empathy, that went out the window with crass individualism born from egocentric thinking in a sociocentric culture. The values of capitalism or hucksterism are necessary for the economic system to work. The values and dispositions of the critical mind are receding and the result is confusion, bafflement, uncritical thought and self delusion.
Values of thinking like empathy, courage, humility, the ability to see the world from disparate points of view, giving and caring cannot exist in a toxic petri-dish like the capitalist system all based on 'self'. We do not learn these values in schools ut on the battle field and now more than ever for we are living behind enemy lines.
A quiet but powerful shift is underway.
BRICS nations are deepening cooperation in agriculture focusing on climate resilience, fertilizer security, food-price stability, and digital traceability.
This is more than trade.
It is about control over food systems in an increasingly uncertain world.
As global volatility rises, countries are rethinking how food is produced, tracked, and distributed.
Agriculture is no longer just an economic sector.
It is becoming a strategic pillar of sovereignty.
The future of global trade will not only be shaped by energy and technology
but by who controls food, inputs, and supply chains.
So important what you wrote. For capitalism is dying. Now, it can be its own grave digger and go the way of Rome, for it will be far worse there are now 8 billion people on the planet, or we can come together and change it as you mentioned is happening.
But you are right the cocoon, the interregnum, is moving.
It doesn't take Rocket Science for a fool to know that!!
No, but it takes a distinct and critical mind to easily map it out for others to see. Don't be so arrogant.
This is so true. I live in Asia and have visited China. I have also walked the streets of Buffalo and San Fran. To paraphrase the Orange pedophile, both shithole cities. Both were great cities but since the tax money heads to israel, to buy weapons, to fatten politicians and the ogliarchs instead of fixing americas crumbling infrastructure, America is a shithole country. China is unbelievable. Beautiful cities, intelligent people, solving problematic climate change and pollution. Americas orange dictator and his corrupt party care not for the disasters caused by global warming. If China stopped selling their products, your shelves would be like mother Hubbards.
USA strung along at the nose by Israel is the greatest threat to the world. 💯