Yeah the survey might be very flawed. It's hard to trust the result. Not saying all Iranians are positive to china but a sizable portion. If you search videos of chinese tourists visiting Iran they are warmly treated. And they are Chinese speaking Iranians including a tour guide quite famous on Chinese internet as video blogger.It is the respondents that thinks China and Russian negatively and thinking of US very positively, not the Iranian government. Why would China and Russia not trust Iranian government?
The right conclusion should be never trust those portion of Iranian people.
It might be because the answer in the survey was responding to question about cultural influence. Then I will safely assume Hollywood and American pop music etc have a far bigger hold there and many parts of the world unfortunately.
OK I found this YT video which is shot about yr ago. The Chinese speaking Iranian tour guide and vblogger mentions some reason why western influence is still strong there and why China isn't that strong. Think she listed the lack of familiarity with China and Chinese culture, basically among Iranian youth, china is an unknown. Also Chinese language isnt popular and not many study it.
Also mentioned western worship. Same shit. Moon is brighter on the other side. Grass is greener etc. Think wealth mean more civilised etc.
Quite surprising many Iranians use instagram. Obviously these American social media influenced young generation.
Didn't finish watching yet. But judging from comments her presentation is well thought out and reasoned. Worth a look.
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