Chinese like American culture, loathe hegemony
“people’s trust and support for the Communist Party of China and the Chinese government remains strong”<p>I wonder, how many credits a positive response to a question like that is worth in China’s social credit system?<p>Which is the problem with a social credit system.  Even if the CCP is beloved, you can’t really believe a poll result like this when a social credit system is in place.  That turns<p>a closed loop system of strong state control with honest feedback from the people<p>into<p>an open loop system where authoritarian leaders live in their own little world and make decisions likewise.<p>That’s a fragile strategy moving forward, as the Mao era has taught.<p>US hegemony?  What actions by China on the world stage in the last 100 years should lead any country to trust China over the US?<p>WWI and WWII bought the US a lot of good faith, the world economic system has stumbled but led to unprecedented prosperity, including in China, there has been no World War in the last 75 years under Pax Americana (USSR&#x2F;Russia gets a lot of credit there too, and the EU).  Real leadership in the nuclear age.  Philippines has the biggest justifiable gripe over the last 100 years...<p>China is doing some good things with the Africans, but that hasn’t been put to the test politically yet.  Time will tell.  The less attention needing to be paid to global issues, the more China can spend continuing to improve the lives of 1.4B people.