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China's Xi receives highest rating among world leaders|Politics|chinadaily.com.cn
Updated: 2014-12-17 20:45 (chinadaily.com.cn)

Chinese President Xi Jinping was the highest rated world leader in many fields, according to a survey published by Harvard Kennedy School's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Xi topped both the domestic ratings that respondents gave to their own leaders and international scoring. Chinese respondents showed the highest confidence in regards to how their leader handled domestic and international affairs.

In terms of ratings of their own leaders in their respective countries, Xi was the highest rated leader with a nine out of 10 rating. Russia's Putin followed with an 8.7 with India's Modi and South Africa's Jacob Zuma rounding out the top. When it came to how the 10 leaders are rated by people in other countries, Xi also fared the best, with Modi, Merkel and Zuma trailing.

Xi is highly thought of in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.

The Chinese president had the highest average score, at 7.5, based on international scoring. With the exception of Japan, he is reasonably well received in all countries in this survey, according to the analysis of Anthony Saich, a China expert at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Findings also show that 93.9 percent of Chinese respondents claimed to pay attention to President Xi.

In regards to the confidence citizens have in how their own leaders handling of domestic and international affairs, President Xi topped the list in both categories at 94.8 percent and 93.8 percent respectively. In second on the list was Indian Prime Minister Modi with 93.2 percent and 93.3 percent respectively. Russian President Putin came in third with 86.2 percent and 86 percent.

President Xi was rated high in Asian and African countries except Japan on his handling of domestic affairs. More than 51 percent of respondents in the US said they approved of Xi's handling of international affairs. Xi also rated well in the rest of the countries.

In regards to awareness of the ten leaders among the respondents in 30 countries, Xi ranked fourth. US President Barack Obama, Russian President Putin and British Prime Minister Cameron took the first three places.

According to Saich, figures on the recognition on development strategy of the ten countries among all respondents shows that China's rapid development left a profound impression on the people surveyed in Asia, Africa and Latin America.

The survey also showed that Xi's visits to particular countries have made a significant difference in terms of appreciation of the Chinese leader. Appreciation of the Chinese President rose 10 percent in the countries that he has visited. Unsurprisingly, awareness of Xi also rose in those countries by 10 percent.

The ten national leaders used in the survey are Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister David Cameron, French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and South African President Jacob Zuma.

The leaders in the survey rule over countries that have adopted disparate development strategies ranging from almost full market-based policies to nations where state engagement and control of key sectors are more prevalent.

The survey questioned people from 30 countries in total, 12 from Asia (China, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Pakistan, India, Israel and Saudi Arabia), 4 from Africa (Egypt, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa), 4 from the Americas (United States, Canada, Brazil and Chile), 8 from Europe (Russia, Ukraine, France, United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Italy and Finland) and 2 from Oceania (Australia and New Zealand).

Original report: http://www.ash.harvard.edu/extension/ash/docs/survey-global-perceptions-international-leaders-world-powers.pdf
 
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Grading 10 top world leaders | Harvard Gazette
China’s Xi and Germany’s Merkel best-rated in rare international survey
December 17, 2014 | Editor's Pick Popular

Here in the United States, many people have become almost oblivious to the daily drumbeat of opinion pollsters declaring what the public thinks about political candidates and leaders. But how people in other countries view their heads of state, and those of other major nations, is terrain that’s not nearly as well-mapped.

In a rare poll, citizens on five continents and in 30 countries, including China, were asked to identify and evaluate the job performance of 10 of the most widely recognized global leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and U.S. President Barack Obama.

The survey of more than 26,000 respondents, conducted this fall by GMO Research, a Tokyo-based global market research firm, rated Xi, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Merkel the top-performing world leaders, with respective scores of 7.5, 7.3, and 7.2 on a scale of one to 10. They ranked French President François Hollande (6.3), Japanese Prime Minister Shinzō Abe (6.1), and Putin (6.0) at the bottom. Obama (6.6) received middling marks, just ahead of David Cameron (6.5), the British prime minister.

Respondents in India (87.8 percent), Russia (79.6 percent), and China (78.6 percent) overwhelmingly said that their home country was moving in the right direction, while only a minority in the United States (44.8 percent), Japan (30.4 percent), and South Africa (29.3 percent) felt their nation was making progress.

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Graphic by John McCarthy/Harvard Staff

“It maps pretty closely to geopolitics,” said Anthony Saich, the Daewoo Professor of International Affairs and director of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), which co-sponsored the study.

In countries where a single party dominates, or where public debate about political leaders is constrained, citizens typically rated their own officials much higher than did respondents in nations with a multiparty system and a more open and robust press, Saich wrote in a just-published analysis of the survey findings.

The results also offer a glimpse into what kinds of information about other nations filter down to the average citizen, he said, “so you can begin to ask questions about how both geopolitics and about how national presses begin to report activities and behavior of other countries and how that reflects onto particular leaders.”

“Two things did surprise me — how well Modi came out. I just put that down to the fact that he’d only just been elected and so I suspect that a lot of people didn’t really know very much about him, and his own nationals were probably still in the phase of him having won the election,” said Saich. “I thought what was interesting, though, was how well Merkel came out across the board. From the surveys, she really emerges as a leader of international respect.”

Saich, who serves as faculty chair of HKS’s China program, said granular data about how Chinese citizens viewed other world leaders was groundbreaking and supports what was generally known already. Their positive assessment of Xi’s performance both at home and abroad is explained by a multitude of factors.

“One is that they don’t hear much negative news about their national government; it’s all positive. And the national government is always making great pronouncements: ‘We’re going to give you more health benefits, we’re going to give you more minimum living standards, support benefits, and so forth,’” he said. “But it’s the local government that has to find the money to provide all those services. So from their perspective, the center is doing good things: Why isn’t the local government actually carrying this out? Well, one of the reasons is because the central government doesn’t give them the money to do it.

“For a large number of people, life has generally gotten better year by year — more freedom of choice, probably more income, better living conditions, better material conditions, a lot more to watch on the television,” Saich added. “I think that also plays into it.”

The results provide a preliminary but useful baseline for similarly broad surveys and analyses to build on in the future, said Saich. He planned to meet with the polling firm in Beijing to discuss more potential collaborations that could enhance public understanding of contemporary political dynamics.

“For me, what would be interesting to do is look at the data from China. Is there anything we can draw from this that tells us what is the Chinese citizens’ world view [about] particular countries they like? Particular leaders they like? Does that map onto particular political styles? In terms of international relations, what does that mean for potential healing of wounds between Japan or a better relationship with the U.S.?”
 
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China's Xi receives highest rating among world leaders|Politics|chinadaily.com.cn
Updated: 2014-12-17 20:45 (chinadaily.com.cn)

In terms of ratings of their own leaders in their respective countries, Xi was thehttps://defence.pk/threads/mumbai-attack-mastermind-lakhvi-detained-under-mpo.349413/#post-6564459 with a nine out of 10 rating. Russia's Putin followed with an 8.7 with India's Modi and South Africa's Jacob Zuma rounding out the top. When it came to how the 10 leaders are rated by people in other countries, Xi also fared the best, with Modi, Merkel and Zuma trailing.
Xi is highly thought of in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe.
Findings also show that 93.9 percent of Chinese respondents claimed to pay attention to President Xi.
In regards to the confidence citizens have in how their own leaders handling of domestic and international affairs, President Xi topped the list in both categories at 94.8 percent and 93.8 percent respectively. In second on the list was Indian Prime Minister Modi with 93.2 percent and 93.3 percent respectively. Russian President Putin came in third with 86.2 percent and 86 percent.

Original report: http://www.ash.harvard.edu/extension/ash/docs/survey-global-perceptions-international-leaders-world-powers.pdf

PM Modi ji still remains most popular & highest rated leader in India & also abroad . Every normal citizen has the highest faith in him for bringing in overall development of India. Now were did all the Anti Modi trolls go ---- @Guynextdoor2 @Soulspeek @jamahir @seiko.. Your views are really appreciated.
 
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PM Modi ji still remains most popular & highest rated leader in India & also abroad . Every normal citizen has the highest faith in him for bringing in overall development of India. Now were did all the Anti Modi trolls gone ---- @Guynextdoor2 @Soulspeek @jamahir @seiko.. Your views are really appreciated.

The article says the Chinese premier is the highest rated no?
 
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Both Chinese & Indian people have high hopes from both their leaders & what the hell is wrong with brits why are they tolerating this buffoon to run their great nations is beyond me
 
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Who says I am anti-Modi? I always wanted a strong leader like him. I am against some rabid saffron chaddiwalas who think it is their sarkaar and are on a rampage.

PM Modi ji still remains most popular & highest rated leader in India & also abroad . Every normal citizen has the highest faith in him for bringing in overall development of India. Now were did all the Anti Modi trolls gone ---- @Guynextdoor2 @Soulspeek @jamahir @seiko.. Your views are really appreciated.
 
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Who says I am anti-Modi? I always wanted a strong leader like him. I am against some rabid saffron chaddiwalas who think it is their sarkaar and are on a rampage.
I never intended to say that u are an Anti-Modi troll. Just wanted to know your highly valuable opinion.
 
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PM Modi ji still remains most popular & highest rated leader in India & also abroad . Every normal citizen has the highest faith in him for bringing in overall development of India. Now were did all the Anti Modi trolls go ---- @Guynextdoor2 @Soulspeek @jamahir @seiko.. Your views are really appreciated.

1. this poll is conducted by harvard business school... a capitalist institution... obviously they would grade modi at top because they expect to invite ( through "make in india" ) all those western companies which are now failed in the west, like ibm and hp.

2. this poll seems like the term "international community"... meaning those governments which are allies of usa government... therefore india and modi.

3. look at the department's name... "Harvard Kennedy school's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation."... looks like a proper cia front to push "western democracy" into russia, china, north korea, cuba and venezuela... this "school" is like those cia ngo's like "national endowment for democracy" and avaaz... look at the marvelous "democracy" they have introduced in libya and are trying to do so in syria and venezuela through "color revolutions"... western "democracy" is really anti-democracy.

4. this poll is another way of pushing forward certain businesses in russia and china, and effecting an environment for regime-change.
 
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1. this poll is conducted by harvard business school... a capitalist institution... obviously they would grade modi at top because they expect to invite ( through "make in india" ) all those western companies which are now failed in the west, like ibm and hp.

2. this poll seems like the term "international community"... meaning those governments which are allies of usa government... therefore india and modi.

3. look at the department's name... "Harvard Kennedy school's Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation."... looks like a proper cia front to push "western democracy" into russia, china, north korea, cuba and venezuela... this "school" is like those cia ngo's like "national endowment for democracy" and avaaz... look at the marvelous "democracy" they have introduced in libya and are trying to do so in syria and venezuela through "color revolutions"... western "democracy" is really anti-democracy.

4. this poll is another way of pushing forward certain businesses in russia and china, and effecting an environment for regime-change.
That just gave me a brain rust ... Anyway most popular guy is Xi not Western stooges. Anyway thanks 4 your replay.
 
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An authoritarian, un-democratic leader rated higher than other world leaders?

What?
 
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