In August a Harris poll found that China remains, by a substantial margin, the country that Americans most commonly view as unfriendly (see chart).

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But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.

WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand