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What I see is a lot of

You said there weren’t 1.3 billion people in China who supported the PRC. Harvard says you were wrong. We’re not talking about the minutiae of Chinese governance here, we’re talking about foreign policy.

PS: If you dig into the numbers (page 3 of the report, aka page 6 in the PDF), 70% of people are fairly or very satisfied with their township governments, so don’t be taken in by the Harvard cope–it really is bullshit.

lol try again

In 2016, the last year the survey was conducted, 95.5 percent of respondents were either “relatively satisfied” or “highly satisfied” with Beijing.

I wish I knew, but it’s hard to get a visa, so I’m stuck in my shithole country (United States).

Your day-to-day life…on the massive globally interconnected computer network shared by everyone worldwide who has the means to connect to it? You didn’t expect to see an opinion held by well over 1 billion people on that network, ever?

Hate to break it to you, but even the US state department recognizes that there’s no such country as Taiwan. Please call it by its correct name, “Chinese Taipei,” so people know what you’re talking about.

You thought no Chinese people supported the One China Policy? Seriously?

Taiwan? I think you mean Chinese Taipei.

So…you thought sharing a common language precluded having differing opinions? That’s kinda astonishing, ngl

Apparently you’re new to Lemmy. It used to run on Websockets, meaning that the page would update in real time. Meaning that every so often you’d be reading something and it would move to somewhere else, or off the page entirely. They recently ditched Websockets, so that doesn’t happen anymore.