Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/global-discontent-with-u-s-increasing-u-s-works-to-bolster-image Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript A survey of people in 47 countries has found that in the past five years, more people have become discontent with the U.S. Meanwhile, the U.S. has launched efforts to improve its image in the Muslim world. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JIM LEHRER: And, finally tonight, a look at how America is seen from abroad. Judy Woodruff begins. JUDY WOODRUFF: This year's survey of 45,000 people in 47 nations is the largest ever undertaken by the Pew Global Attitudes Project. It shows that, in the five years since the surveys began, discontent with the United States has deepened, but so has disapproval of two other major powers, China and Russia.Here to help flesh out the findings for us is Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center.Andy, thank you for being with us. It's not news that the U.S. is held in low regard by other countries, so as you look at this year's numbers, this year's survey, what strikes you?ANDREW KOHUT, Pew Center for the People and the Press: Well, first, a little context, great concern about American policies, but also concern about emerging Chinese power.And if you look at the overall findings of this survey, the world is sort of disaffected with the powers that be, China, the United States, concern about Putin in Russia, and even the challengers to the global status quo, Hugo Chavez and Ahmadinejad in Iran. They don't have not only popularity around the world, but they don't have support in their home regions. And maybe that provides a basis for understanding the kind of word in which America continues to be poorly regarded. JUDY WOODRUFF: Let's take a look at some of the numbers, starting out with the Muslim countries. It's low, but it's interesting here. ANDREW KOHUT: Well, what it shows is basically that anti-Americanism is entrenched. Over the past five years, all of these favorability ratings are quite low. We might just focus on Turkey, where it fell all the way down to 12 percent last year, and I thought to myself, "Well, it can't go any lower." Well, it went to 9 percent this year, and it had once been 50 percent.But in all of these Muslim countries and many not shown in this survey, for example, Kuwait, where we're seeing more positively, there has been a slide or there has been an entrenched discontent with the United States. That's very powerful, very powerful.