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No difference really. Domestic approval ratings for the CCP are through the roof. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/913650298/as-u-s-views-of-china-grow-more-nega
by Fricken 5y ago
No difference really. Domestic approval ratings for the CCP are through the roof.
https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/913650298/as-u-s-views-of-china-grow-more-negative-chinese-support-for-their-government-ri https://www.npr.org/2020/09/23/913650298/as-u-s-views-of-chi...
- joyeuse6701 5y agoDoes that include Tibet, Xinjiang and Taiwan? They're 'Domestic' according to the CCP right?
- Fricken 5y agoThe total population of those 3 regions amounts to 50 million, less than 4% of China.
- schleck8 5y agoAnd yet Xinjiang makes up for 20 % of arrests in the entire country. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/chinas-treatment-of-uighurs-is-crimes-against-humanity-report https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/4/19/chinas-treatment-of...
- guywhocodes 5y agoYeah I don't know how we could possibly validate that. It's similar to, but not the same as, measuring this in North Korea.
- Fricken 5y agoYou are the gullible and ignorant victim of western anti-china propaganda. Many independent studies have been done. They all show very high approval ratings. Higher now, after the pandemic.
- wolverine876 5y agoThe Chinese people who do have free speech, in Taiwan, and did, in Hong Kong, certainly don't/didn't like the CCP much. Perhaps that's why the CCP felt the need to shut down freedom in Hong Kong - too much criticism. If the CCP is so popular, why not have free speech and elections?
- Fricken 5y agoWhy not? I don't think China is going to change it's functional political system just to prove a point to some rando on the internet is why.
- loyukfai 5y agoIt's people like you, and the predictable but classless act of keeping Wikimedia off WIPO (and similar ones) that gives CCP (and "China") bad rep all over world. Many would have liked a/one more counterbalance to US hegemony. From the latest polls though, it seems people would rather the US hegemony continues/strengthens rather than seeing CCP/"China" rises further. Such intangible acts will, sooner or later, have tangible consequences.
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- Fricken 5y agoLatest polls from who? What polls are you talking about?
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- jhedwards 5y agoWhile I wouldn't rule out that this is true, it's difficult to trust numbers like that in China since people are so afraid to voice their true opinion. When I lived in China I learned that it was a basic rule of society that you do not express opinions about the government with anyone except for your closest friends, and even then it is extremely rare. It's no surprise that this is the case given historical events such as the hundred flowers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Flowers_Campaign
- Fricken 5y agoMy experience is that they don't really think about it that hard because they don't have to. They've also seen their lives improve dramatically over the past 1.5 generations.
- age_of_stone 5y agomore likely, you were treated as foreigner that no one really wanted to talk about government when you were present.
- _carbyau_ 5y agoConflation? There is a very distinct difference. 1. China, as a nation consists of ALL the citizens of said nation. 2. CPP, only consists of ruling party. The people's opinions don't matter as to their grouping. I can still be for one group and against another.