A recent report by the Pew Research Center indicated that Kenyans had a more positive view of the US compared to China.
In the report which surveyed 35 countries, Kenya was among middle-income countries which favour the US at 78 per cent compared to China's 73 per cent.
"More people have a positive view of the U.S. than China in the remaining 24 countries we surveyed. In some of these places, such as Kenya and Mexico, people are only slightly more likely to favour the U.S. over China."
"In other places, such as Japan and South Korea, far more people view the U.S. favourably than hold the same view about China," read a part of the report.
According to the survey, a median of 61 per cent in 17 middle-income countries also sees the US favourably compared to China.
However, other middle-income countries had a more positive view of China with Thailand leading at 80 per cent and India at 18 per cent.
Per the survey, high-income countries such as Poland, South Korea, Israel and Japan had a more positive view of the US compared to China. Poland led the countries with the highest positive view of the US at 86 per cent while Australia was at the bottom at 40 per cent.
Additionally, the US also had a positive view of itself at 71 per cent.
On China, these countries had the lowest positive view of China with countries like Sweden, Japan, Australia, the US and Poland only at 11 per cent, 12 per cent, 14 per cent and 18 per cent respectively.
"There's only one high-income country where a majority of adults have a favourable opinion of China - Singapore, where 67% hold this view. By comparison, majorities are favourable in more than half of the middle-income countries surveyed," the report read in parts.
This survey was conducted between January and May and a median of 53 per cent in 18 high-income countries had a favourable view of the US.
Additionally, Kenya had more positive views of Presidents Joe Biden (US) and Xi Jinping (China) with ratings of 75 per cent and 64 per cent respectively. Other African countries that favoured Biden over Jinping include Nigeria (66%), and Ghana (61%).
Middle-income countries had more confidence in Biden compared to his Chinese counterpart while high-income countries also had more confidence in Biden and Poland was leading in this too at 70 per cent.
"In most other countries, more people have confidence in Biden than Xi. In fact, in several of these countries – including Germany, Japan and South Korea – people are at least 40 percentage points more likely to have confidence in the American president than in his Chinese counterpart," the report read.
