It surprises the west that a government is so well liked by its citizens. They don’t understand how China is improving everyone’s quality of life. Not like in the US, where it only improves the lives of the wealthy.
It’s so unbelievable that a populace would support its government that westerners will invent conspiracy theories to explain it away.
People here would seriously rather believe that all 1 billion+ Chinese people are brainwashed or paid actors than to believe that the Chinese government is good, actually.
Is there a more updated version? The link was published 3 years ago.
Not quite the same thing, but there’s this study from 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20230105183832/https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index/
Every time I try to download the 2022 report, it fails every single time.
Oh looks like archive shat the bed there, I managed to track down 2023 instead https://web.archive.org/web/20230511041927/https://6389062.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/6389062/Canva images/Democracy Perception Index 2023.pdf
Damn Xi Jinpig owns Harvard now, the communism is getting stronger than ever in the land of the free /s
those darn see see pee shills are at it again
@yogthos It sucks that if you tell your average Joe this, they will call you every slur in the book.
indeed
Strongly recommend everyone read Capitalist Realism by Mark Fisher if you have the time. People in the west have it thoroughly ingrained into their heads that governments can not act in the people’s interest, that they simply cannot imagine that a government does. Especially not one like China which is constantly slandered as ‘authoritarian’.
That book is excellent for explaining that phenomenon.
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