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Notable that the highest favorably is where the countries invest in soft power. When DOGE gutted the USAID, many of those developing countries noticed (although some of these countries always hated the US, lol)
Countries don't hate you, people do.
Weirdly enough, watched a video on USA soft power recently. It's a good watch if you have the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A4FiUUPDDs
Humanitarian aid is just a detail, this is more a matter of communication and propaganda.
I dunno, if your AIDS drugs get suddenly cut off, you might have a bit of resentment.
Or maybe that time when the USA exported HIV contaminated blood transfusions materials to the same third world countries
And USAID is also a known regime change tool
In how many of these countries is Chinese propaganda more pervasive than US propaganda? The US has Hollywood, pop music and the fucking English language going for it. Seems more likely that: A. China makes all the products everyone uses, and B. Doesn't go all around the world murdering people.
Not quite, it's just that the cheaper products that get some people into accidents they don't want. Like for every Anker powerbank, there's couple dozen low-tier powerbanks which can blow up if misused.