The Pew Research Center on How the World Sees China noted an interesting fact:
(Interestingly, for reasons not apparent from these data, the English-speaking countries covered by the survey -- Great Britain, Canada, and even to a lesser extent the United States -- have decidedly more favorable overall views of China than do non-English-speaking Western nations.)
Study link here
Hmm....Inter-anglo regional rivalry? Better cultural exchanges between the English speaking world and China? Commerce (U.S. has been the main beneficiary of free trade, although some would think otherwise)?
I think it is the high level of academic and cultural exchanges because nowhere else can you find better analysis of China than in the English speaking world. Examples are here, here, here, here, and here. To name a few.
People back in China always wondered why study about China in the United States. It is because the studies are more rigorous.
