According to a new Pew Research Center poll published on Wednesday, five out of six Americans hold a negative perspective of China, and the number seems to be rising. 

In a press release, the center stated, "A large majority of US adults (83%) continue to have negative views of China, and the share who have very unfavorable views (44%) has increased by 4 percentage points since last year."

The survey, taken from March 20 to 26, also demonstrated that four out of ten Americans view China as the enemy of the state and not a competitor; that statistic has increased by 13% in the past year.

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After Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Moscow to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Pew relayed that "62% of Americans see the China-Russia partnership as a very serious problem for the United States, up 5 points since October and back to the original high levels" as a result of the war in Ukraine.

Lastly, 47% of the poll respondents expressed that China's ties with Taiwan and the related human rights policies posed a serious problem for the US.

This comes right after Xu Bu, head of the China Institute of International Studies, warned that unless the US fundamentally changes its attitude toward China, there’s no point in talks on ways to safeguard the relationship.

"If the overall misperceptions cannot be properly addressed, if the view that China needs to be contained is not going to be readjusted, any crisis communication or crisis management won’t help,"