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Actually PRC is very pro-populism. It's an easy way to manipulate the public. False information combines with some provoking words, you get Chinese communists' means of control.

This should be an useful reference: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2019/04/ta...

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For certain strains in certain context sure, but I’m still confused why a Taiwanese populist would side with CPC.

Sure, you could naïvely buy into the whole reunification thing, but it’s not like Beijing wouldn’t assert complete control. Just look at Hong Kong, or the fact that the mainland has a couple of orders of magnitude more of... everything.

well... populist can exist in all political spectrum and entities, as long as it's a popular opinion that feed on fabricated or ambiguous information.

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