Yet another poll confirms that contrary to the media’s pussyfooting around the issue, the public really, truly loathes China.

In a sharp divergence from a near 50-50 split of public opinion just three years ago, Pew Research Center found that 2 out of 3 people in the United States have a negative opinion of China, with just one in four reporting a favorable one. This tracks closely with a Morning Consult poll from January that found that even before the coronavirus became a global crisis, the majority of the nation considered China either unfriendly or an outright enemy to the U.S.