There were the white banner protests a few years ago. Technologies like mass surveillance and face recognition were used to track protesters down and quietly vanish them, though. Videos of the protests got shared on the western internet but it didn‘t really go viral. We didn‘t see videos of mass arrest or anything.

That‘s because the arrests were spread out through days and weeks in hundreds of different operations. The Chinese regime is aware how powerful these images would be. So they use their surveillance state to do the dirty work quietly. People still protest. Major things happen but we barely hear about them because the arrests and killings don‘t happen in the public anymore.

High-tech simply obscures their cruelty.

So they have a system where towns are appointed a mayor who gets changed out every 5 years. The mayor is then graded on things like education, economy, popularity, and how many veggies the village ate.

The purpose of this is to prevent local fiefdoms from developing and to quickly identify and remove underperforming leaders.

This has the effect of people appealing to the provincial government to either keep or remove candidates who are exceptionally good or bad.

You mean: How do I feel about a bunch of weirdos supporting a regime that have tried to terminate my existence via the enforcement of One Child Policy? (I was the 2nd child born in my family)

Idk... am I supposed to like people that believes its for the greater good for me to have been aborted because "bUt tHe oVeRpOpUlAtIoN"...?

I mean, I very much like breathing and watching movies, tv shows, anime, and I'm glad I've been able to play fun games like FTL... so I'm not too keen on the government that catergorically rejected my right to exist... and I don't really like those uninformed weirdos that thinks somehow CCP taking control of their country is gonna magically solve problems... like lmao, lets see these porn-addicted people try watching porn in China... (porn is illegal)