According to a Genron poll released in June a record 84.3% of Japanese viewed China unfavourably.
The Democrats were overwhelmingly negative, but nearly every respondent viewed Mr Bush's record unfavourably.
But many Spaniards still compare Mr Aznar unfavourably with Felipe Gonzalez, his Socialist forerunner.
Meanwhile, the percentage of Americans who viewed China unfavourably leapt from 13% to 58%.
Britain compares unfavourably with similar countries in survival rates after a cancer diagnosis, for example (see chart).
The young, especially, tend to compare French politicians unfavourably with their counterparts in Britain, Germany or the United States.
They compare Mr Blair's enthusiasm for Europe unfavourably with Gordon Brown's apparent scepticism.
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But the business community has reacted unfavourably to news of a VAT rise from 17.5% to 20% from 4 January 2010.
Ms Blythman said the FSA compared very unfavourably to the Food Standards Authority Ireland (FSAI), which she said was "more pro-active" and unearthed the horsemeat contamination in the first place.
And the length of waits discovered by the survey compare unfavourably with a similar survey carried out in Scotland, which found maximum waits of approximately four and a half hours.
Most controversially, they suggest "poor productivity" is due in part to attitudes to work in the UK - which they compare unfavourably with countries such as Singapore, South Korea and Hong Kong.
Critics of the Obama plan point to vagueness and lack of detail, contrasting his speeches unfavourably with John Kennedy's clear and specific demand in 1961 for a moon mission before the decade was out.
Still Mr Duncan Smith made good with his next set of questions by comparing the rise in street crime unfavourably to that in New York, whose former mayor Rudolph Giuliani was in the public gallery.
Previously seen as proof of his moderation, Mr Davis's close ties to business are one reason why Californians are suspicious of him: the latest Field poll shows that 50% of likely voters regard Mr Davis unfavourably, and only 39% favourably.
In a pluralist, commercial society, it is not surprising that it has been the excuse for excruciating vulgarity (the Terezin cookbook), as well as the occasion for aggressive political manipulation, not least by black leaders such as Louis Farrakhan who compare the sufferings of the Jews under Hitler unfavourably with the suffering of Africans under slavery.
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