US cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world: global poll (AFP)

Source: Agence France-Presse

US cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world: global poll

Tue Apr 17, 10:28 PM ET

CHICAGO (AFP) - There is widespread global concern that the United
States cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world, according to
a multinational poll released here Wednesday.

But while there is broad international frustration with how the United
States conducts its foreign policy, few people around the world want
the United States to completely back off its role as a global policeman,
the poll found.

"There's clearly a trend in terms of deepening negative attitudes to
the US in how it executes foreign policy," said Christopher Whitney,
executive director for studies at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
which helped coordinate the 18-country study.

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A majority of respondents in Argentina (84 percent), Peru (80 percent),
Russia (73 percent) France (72 percent), Armenia (58 percent),
Indonesia (64 percent), China (59 percent), Thailand (56 percent),
South Korea (53 percent) and India (52 percent) and more than a third
of those in Australia (40 percent) and Ukraine (37 percent) answered
"not at all" or "not very much" when asked how much they trusted the
US "to act responsibly in the world," the poll found.

The Philippines and Israel proved the staunchest supporters with 85
percent and 81 percent of respondents, respectively, saying they
trusted the US either a "great deal" or "somewhat," followed by
Australia at 59 percent and Poland at 51 percent.

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