Why should US policy makers care what Chinese public opinion is?
https://www.state.gov/communist-china-and-the-free-worlds-fu...
>He was a brilliant student of China, a fierce cold warrior, and a tremendous admirer of the Chinese people, just as I think we all are.
>We must also engage and empower the Chinese people – a dynamic, freedom-loving people who are completely distinct from the Chinese Communist Party.
>So to somehow think that we ought to ignore the voices of the people of China seems to me the wrong approach... But it seems to me we would dishonor ourselves and the people of China if we ignored them.
I am not sure why that would be the US's problem.
I have no doubt the that CCP will be able to control the media narrative within their own country. I just don't care. That was always going to be the case.
It has become clear that China is not on the road towards freedom. That theory failed.
And it is because that failed, that we need to take a new approach to things. The way to get China to change, is to pressure them to change.
And we can pressure them, with economic pressure, by engaging in some of the same tactics that they use against us.
If they are going to defect, eventually we have to respond in kind, in order to not put ourselves at a disadvantage.