Favorable opinions of the United States among both South Korean and Japanese adults fell 5 percentage points between July 17, just before news reports suggested Pelosi was planning to visit the island, and Aug. 14, just prior to the latest naval drills launched by China in response to a second group of American dignitaries arriving in Taipei.

Nonetheless, 60% of South Korean adults and 56% of Japanese adults still hold favorable views of the United States, indicating that America’s standing among the populations of its most important Asian allies remains fundamentally strong.

Views of China in South Korea and Japan, on the other hand, remained fairly static over the same period — although with 77% of Japanese and 87% of South Koreans already holding unfavorable views of China before Pelosi’s trip, Beijing’s soft power in both countries had little room to fall further.