I'm currently studying at Tsinghua University in Beijing (one of China's top universities), and all of my Chinese friends here seem to be very clear about what

I'm currently studying at Tsinghua University in Beijing (one of China's top universities), and all of my Chinese friends here seem to be very clear about what their government is doing. The one Communist party member I met so far told me they're only a party member because they were made to join in high school, when they didn't yet know what any of that was about, and now didn't want to pay the fee to leave. Of course, I'm living in a campus bubble of the country's English-speaking elite (unfortunately, I'm not yet fluent at Mandarin). I'm curious what this divide in perception between the well-educated elite and the non-English speaking majority means for China's future.