Might get downvoted for this, but is the Global Times a reliable source? All I know of it is what I just looked up on Wikipedia, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I can readily believe that the majority doesn't buy the nonsense about human rights, but 96% seems suspicious, it's rare for a poll to get that high about anything.
I'm just saying, just because we should be skeptical of Western media doesn't mean we should uncritically accept everything that comes out of China. Maybe I'm just being a lib.
96% broadly aligns with what Harvard-based surveys of China find out about its public opinion.
The survey team found that compared to public opinion patterns in the U.S., in China there was very high satisfaction with the central government. In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing. In contrast to these findings, Gallup reported in January of this year that their latest polling on U.S. citizen satisfaction with the American federal government revealed only 38 percent of respondents were satisfied with the federal government.
I’m gonna throw something out there: maybe having a vast portion of the population discontent isn’t an immutable state of affairs.
Might get downvoted for this, but is the Global Times a reliable source? All I know of it is what I just looked up on Wikipedia, which doesn't exactly fill me with confidence. I can readily believe that the majority doesn't buy the nonsense about human rights, but 96% seems suspicious, it's rare for a poll to get that high about anything.
I'm just saying, just because we should be skeptical of Western media doesn't mean we should uncritically accept everything that comes out of China. Maybe I'm just being a lib.
96% broadly aligns with what Harvard-based surveys of China find out about its public opinion.
I’m gonna throw something out there: maybe having a vast portion of the population discontent isn’t an immutable state of affairs.
Interesting. Thanks for providing an additional source.
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