Well yeah, you're self selecting for people who

a. Left China b. Are talking to a foreigner about politics

CCP maintains considerable support among the mainland population.

> a. Left China b. Are talking to a foreigner about politics

This is a weird form of racism I see from a lot of people coming from a Chinese perspective, and it's very arrogant and abrasive.

When a Chinese person is outside of China, they are the foreigner. Walking around the U.S. and calling people laowai is really a... questionable choice.

It’s more of a lost in translation - we use _laowai_ as a convenient word. When I just came to US, I sometimes still “translate” what I want to express from Chinese first, so I even called the other fellow US students “foreigner” once when talking about a cultural difference. “Foreigners tends to do XXX while we(Chinese) do YYY”

He laughed and thought it was funny

It’s simply writing about Chinese attitudes and experiences when abroad, and therefore using phrasing from the point of view of the person in question.

Thank you.

Well we don’t know what the support is truly like inside China. But I think it’s safe to assume that there are a lot of people inside china who unfortunately do not have the luxury of being able to move their family overseas.

Some in the mainland population are smart enough not to give their real opinions. It’s not safe unless you no longer live in China (and even then, it’s not safe, as the government can retaliate against the person’s family).

I don’t doubt that the CCP maintains considerable support, but considering they control the media, that’s less impressive than you think it is.

>CCP maintains considerable support among the mainland population

How much of that is genuine support vs saying the party line to avoid persecution?