US’ reputation rebounds with Joe Biden instead of Donald Trump at the helm, Pew survey finds

74 per cent of global respondents are confident in Biden’s ability to do ‘the right thing regarding world affairs’, up from just 17 per cent for Trump

Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s approval rating stands at only 20 per cent, behind Russia’s Vladimir Putin

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US President Joe Biden, shown speaking in Suffolk, England, on Wednesday, gets high marks from respondents in a global survey. Photo: AP

Published: 12:17am, 11 Jun 2021Updated: 2:24am, 11 Jun 2021

The United States’ international image has undergone a dramatic rehabilitation with the election of Joe Biden as president, recovering from record low assessments of the country’s global standing under Donald Trump, according to a new survey of people in more than a dozen countries allied with the US.

The study, conducted by the Washington-based Pew Research Centre, found that around two-thirds of respondents held favourable views of the US, with some of the strongest assessments coming with regard to Biden’s approach to foreign policy.

The survey comes as Biden, who has pledged to put multilateralism at the heart of his administration’s foreign policy, arrives in Europe for Nato and G7 summits that are expected to focus on shared concerns around China.

Pew’s survey found that some 74 per cent of people were confident in Biden’s ability to do “the right thing regarding world affairs”, up from just 17 per cent for Trump based on a similar survey of 12 countries towards the end of his tenure.

With his 74 per cent approval rating, Biden sits just behind Germany’s Angela Merkel (77 per cent) and far ahead of Russia’s Vladimir Putin (23 per cent) and Chinese leader Xi Jinping (20 per cent).