You misread. It said 11% were very satisfied, the satisfaction rate with local government including “moderately satisfied” is 70.2%.
Further, the study acknowledges and accounts for your fears of “brainwashing” (which, itself, is a baseless theory):
Although state censorship and propaganda are widespread in China, these findings highlight that citizen perceptions of governmental performance respond most to real, measurable changes in individuals’ material well-being. Satisfaction and support must be consistently reinforced. As a result, the data point to specific areas in which citizen satisfaction could decline in today’s era of slowing economic growth and continued environmental degradation.
Yeah I was wrong on that. The article framed it weird by talking about the 95% rate then saying local government was considerably less favourable.
It is obvious to anyone that people living under and authoritarian regime are not able to freely express themselves and that was not accounted for in the paper you linked. The paper even confirms people are heavily propagandised and is more highlighting the trends match economic growth.
The article is written by a generally anti-China group, hence why they tried to spin it as being unpolular locally, rather than just less popular. The central government being more popular makes sense, as its the one that tends to enact the most major changes that have uplifted the living standards of Chinese citizens.
Further, the Cambridge examination is biased. If you read the paper, they state that at the outset, their desire is to prove that Chinese citizens are in constant fear of the CPC in order to discredit the Ash study. Even then, we can see that approval rate for the CPC is overwhelmingly positive, while party approval rarely exceeds 50% in western countries.
In the end, you have a hypothesis that is non-falsifiable: if the CPC’s approval is high, it’s because the citizens are in fear and are brainwashed, if the CPC’s approval is lower (though we will see it’s somehow never negative), then this must be “truly accurate” and indicative of fear and brainwashing. You set out from the beginning to prove your hypothesis, not to understand why China is constantly improving and why the public supports their system, when both surveys tell you: it’s because the system works, and the people have dramatically improving conditions year over year.
Finally, repression of speech most directly applies to businesses and wealthy individuals, not to random citizens. China is Socialist, it oppresses the bourgeoisie and restricts their speech, so that the US and hostile powers don’t try to use their heavy financial Capital to fund misinformation campaigns and foment political instability in order to get China to open up its markets for total foreign plundering, like what the US did to the USSR.
You misread. It said 11% were very satisfied, the satisfaction rate with local government including “moderately satisfied” is 70.2%.
Further, the study acknowledges and accounts for your fears of “brainwashing” (which, itself, is a baseless theory):
Yeah I was wrong on that. The article framed it weird by talking about the 95% rate then saying local government was considerably less favourable.
It is obvious to anyone that people living under and authoritarian regime are not able to freely express themselves and that was not accounted for in the paper you linked. The paper even confirms people are heavily propagandised and is more highlighting the trends match economic growth.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/china-quarterly/article/do-chinese-citizens-conceal-opposition-to-the-ccp-in-surveys-evidence-from-two-experiments/12A2440F948D016E8D845C492F7D0CFE
This paper suggests its off by about 28 points due to peoples fear of expressing anti government beliefs.
The article is written by a generally anti-China group, hence why they tried to spin it as being unpolular locally, rather than just less popular. The central government being more popular makes sense, as its the one that tends to enact the most major changes that have uplifted the living standards of Chinese citizens.
Further, the Cambridge examination is biased. If you read the paper, they state that at the outset, their desire is to prove that Chinese citizens are in constant fear of the CPC in order to discredit the Ash study. Even then, we can see that approval rate for the CPC is overwhelmingly positive, while party approval rarely exceeds 50% in western countries.
In the end, you have a hypothesis that is non-falsifiable: if the CPC’s approval is high, it’s because the citizens are in fear and are brainwashed, if the CPC’s approval is lower (though we will see it’s somehow never negative), then this must be “truly accurate” and indicative of fear and brainwashing. You set out from the beginning to prove your hypothesis, not to understand why China is constantly improving and why the public supports their system, when both surveys tell you: it’s because the system works, and the people have dramatically improving conditions year over year.
Finally, repression of speech most directly applies to businesses and wealthy individuals, not to random citizens. China is Socialist, it oppresses the bourgeoisie and restricts their speech, so that the US and hostile powers don’t try to use their heavy financial Capital to fund misinformation campaigns and foment political instability in order to get China to open up its markets for total foreign plundering, like what the US did to the USSR.