While most Americans don’t like Communist China, the highest negative scores for the Communist dictatorship can be found among Republicans and older Americans, while the most positive ones can be found among Democrats and younger people.

Notably the only two groups where a quarter believe that China is a “partner” are 18-29-year-olds and “conservative” Democrats: a group that these days is disproportionately black.

Liberals are the least likely of any group to see China as an enemy. And less than a third of Democrats in general view China as an enemy.

Among 18-29-year-olds, 1 in 5 have a somewhat favorable view of China. And this is the only group with a statistically significant “very favorable” view of the Communist dictatorship.

It’s difficult to say to what degree this is influenced by China’s presence on social media, especially TikTok, and to what extent it’s driven by a younger generation that is demographically less American and less loyal to the nation.