I'm not suggesting study bias, but I am suggesting that Chinese citizens' social media and internet use is now so closely monitored by the CPP that it has a chilling effect on free speech, and this may have influenced the results even if they were told the study was anonymous.

Secondly, since Xi took power, according to that same report, he has "effectively sidelined functional and professional institutions of party and state", in addition to removing term limits. These are all classic authoritarian strongman moves. The study goes on to point out that having an effective authoritarian as leader - one who has helped improve the lives of many Chinese citizens - is of course going to be popular. The old saying goes that a benevolent dictatorship is the best form of government, and that may be true in some regards, right up until the point it isn't benevolent anymore. Which is more or less inevitable imo.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What the hell are you talking about? China is using "communism" to mask the fact that they're a state capitalist dictatorship. Nothing about China is socialist and in many ways corporations in China face even less regulations and restrictions then the west. I would also like to see the source of that statistic because outside observers have been banned from making any statistics about the Chinese government and economy.