America's falling prestige is as big a problem as China's rise

While much attention has been devoted to Australia’s problems dealing with the rise of China, too little is paid to the equally important dilemma raised by the strains in our relationship with the US.

since 2003, found that just 33 per cent of Australians have a favourable view of the US, the lowest on record and down from 50 per cent a year ago.China’s prestige suffered because of its cover-ups and mistakes at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic but the poll suggests that the US’s failure to contain the virus has hurt it almost as much.Just 14 per cent of Australians think the US has handled the pandemic well while 60 per cent think the US has handled it very badly and 25 per cent badly.

The decline in the US’s reputation for competence has been aggravated by confusion over what the US stands for under Mr Trump. Only 23 per cent of Australians have confidence in his foreign policy. With wildfires raging on the US west coast, Mr Trump this week not only downplayed the role of climate change caused by humans but also denied that climate change is happening at all. “It will get cooler,” he said.

media creating division . . . give zero credit to Trump for middle east peace deal . . . the woke believe media narrative

Must have missed something - which nations are like minded with Australia. No, not NZ _ they are more humanitarian than us.

If the November poll is close, you might need UN peace keepers to keep to the two sides apart. Trump will burn the place down rather than admit defeat.

The like-minded nations the SMH refers to as bastions of freedom and democracy, who’ve been a shining example of a response to the pandemic are Indonesia and India. it’s enough to want to cancel my subscription, because I feel dumber having read your editorial.

Fake news

Rubbish

“America’s falling prestige “ ; are you joking SMH?

Is China's rise really a problem? It did not seem to be until Pompeo and Trump told us it was. Pandemic shows the need to address vulnerable supply chains, make sure we have essential resource security. That exposure was our systems doing, not China's.

I'm interested in seeing who will win the next Chinese Presidential election.. .... Oh.... Emperor Xi sorry

What a bunch of leftist propagandist horse crap. Trump and Mike Pompeo can be credited to waking western countries to CCP and its human rights violations. Obama/Biden were content on US being declining power and China as rising power. Biden would let China eat us alive.

When Americans choose to install a reality television troll in the Whitehouse, then their standing in the international scene undoubtedly goes way down. Trump ascent to power signals the beginning of the end of the once mighty American superpower.

Much bigger!

If Morrison were American, he’d be voting for Trump.

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