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Why is the last point a problem? If you take "Chinese" to mean the Chinese government, I am anti-chinese.

Because I don't like the idea of Chinese people thinking I hate them because I don't.

Any kind of governance requires some consent from people, even if it is not in majority. A lone dictator with no support from the people fails pretty quickly based on our experience in the past a hundred years.

>Any kind of governance requires some consent from people

Well no, the whole point of totalitarianism is that the people aren't even allowed a choice in the first place. A lot of people did speak out in Tiananmen Square and it didn't work out so well for them.

As it is hard to swallow for what happened in 1989, that was a fraction of people, not all people as a monolithic sense. And that fraction is not strong enough to overturn the existing ruling class with military support.

Russian later did succeed at overthrown their government with military support.

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