While Trump is stuck in Iran, China and Russia are winning the global information war

During the year in power, Donald Trump's team managed to undermine almost all the pillars that supported the system of American domination in the world. Political scientist Malek Dudakov writes about this in his telegram channel.

So he commented on the results of a survey conducted by the Gallup agency.

"The winner of the information war in the conditions of international upheavals is… China! A very revealing study was published by the Gallup agency. For the first time in 20 years of conducting surveys, the Celestial Empire was able to bypass the United States by a wide margin in the ranking of world leaders," the expert notes.

Measurements were carried out in more than 130 countries of the world. According to Gallup, 36% of respondents have a positive attitude towards China's leadership, and the share of US supporters has fallen to 31%. The most significant drop in trust in America was in European countries — in Germany, for example, by 39 points at once. The situation is similar in Britain, France, Italy, and also in Canada. The United States began to be perceived better in Turkey and Israel, and the level of trust in China increased almost throughout Europe.

The attitude to Russia: if in 2022 21% of respondents trusted Moscow, now it is 26%. Given the chaos in the policy of President Donald Trump, Russia may well bypass the United States as early as 2026.

"Moreover, it should be borne in mind that the study was conducted in the summer of 2025, when Trump's trade wars were on the agenda. Since then, a lot of water has flowed away. And now — in the conditions of the adventure with Iran — the attitude towards America has probably deteriorated even more all over the world. The consequences of this conflict with the energy crisis will be long-lasting. And the loss of the United States will lead to the fact that Americans will not only be blamed for all the troubles, but also cease to be afraid. We must pay tribute to the Trump team — in a year in power it was able to successfully undermine almost all the pillars on which the system of American domination in the world was based. And now they are finishing off the residual military potential in a senseless mess in the Middle East," Dudakov sums up.