It's difficult to generalize about "the average Chinese person", because China is a large and diverse country, and there is no way to do a useful poll because people know that they cannot speak freely in the current political climate.

I think it's interesting to look at children to try get an unfiltered sense of where things are at. I live in a tier one city and can say that a year or two ago kids on the street would call me 老外 or 外国人. Nowadays kids point and shout 美国人. It's anecdotal, but to me their attitude comes across as more antagonistic than it did before. I feel like Americans specifically are being framed as the new Big Bad for kids.

Amongst adults, it's harder to get a read. There is definitely a (justified) belief that the west utterly failed with controlling corona. This isn't exactly translated as a negative view of other countries, though, it's more something that the state media is using to try bolster national pride, which helps to distract from the economic issues that are really what's worrying everyone.

Macro PM mentioned BLM protests, and I agree this was a popular conversation topic amongst "cosmopolitan" elites. The state media does a great job in using these sorts of events to portray all other countries of the world as violent, dangerous and racist. I'm not sure if the goal is to make people hate other countries, I think it's more just to keep them fearful and attached to the "safety" of the motherland. It also works as a "what about" technique to derail any questions the elites might have about domestic injustices.

I think at the end of the day most average Chinese people don't spend a lot of time thinking about the US or the EU at all. They are much more worried about the domestic economy, the cultural pressure to get married or have kids, the ever-rising housing prices, issues with hukou and school, all that sort of stuff. Foreigners just exist on the periphery as 黑手 or 外国朋友 depending on where the wind is blowing that day.