Author: Xue Chen, SIIS

Although some in the media try to interpret the length of President Obama’s stay in China on his inaugural trip to Asia as a sign of the strength of US-China bilateral ties, the public opinion polls within China reveal a somewhat different perspective.

Global Times, China’s leading news website in English, found in an online poll that 86 per cent of the 8,100 respondents said they either ‘do not anticipate’ or ‘do not care much’ about the coming visit of the US President. Read more…