That was rhetorical question in reply to a deleted post where the poster was claiming that CCP has an unbreakable bond with the Chinese people and the fact that there is no mass movement to overthrow the government in China shows how much the Chinese people love the CCP.
Its an obvious falsehood, I know plenty of Chinese immigrants here in Canada and most do complain about widespread corruption, environmental degradation and the authoritarian ways of the CCP. Some of the newer immigrants though do tow the party line and mostly get their news from Chinese state sources.
The poster's logic was deeply flawed. You can use the same logic to show that the North Koreans love the Kim family and are happy with the direction North Korea is going in.
In a censored information bubble and with constant surveillance (in person and online) no anti-government movement can take place. The consequence for a an average person for stepping out of the line are big. See Tiananmen Square incident.
Several sides, normally mutually contradictory in a functioning liberal democracy (somewhat doubtful in the current UK), are true. The CCP does not have an unbreakable bond with the Chinese people, the Chinese people are disgusted with the high level of corruption in the Chinese government, the Chinese people are ok with the atrocities perpetrated by the Chinese government.
Something that liberal democrats (small l, small d) find hard to understand is the intense national identity that most Chinese people have. Imagine the worst kind of European nationalism circa 1914, and that's China currently, and most Chinese people currently.
Something else that needs to be borne in mind, that we Brits may find hard to understand given the difference in scales, is that much of the corruption happens at lower levels, so it's not reflected on the central government. Eg. the Tianjin explosion a few years back was due to local government officials taking bribes to overlook H&S precautions. The corruption was attributed to the local government, and central government addressed it after. People were disgusted with the corrupt government, and people were happy with the upright government. We Brits are not aware of the local government, so we conflate their actions with the representatives of the central government that we see on the news.
