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When did China start paying attention to public opinion polls?
China’s political apparatus is often seen as top-down with decision-making centralised, but in reality, Beijing is often mindful of how its people think
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People walking at the main shopping area in Shanghai, China, on March 14, 2023.
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Christian Le Miere
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It wasn’t an April Fool’s joke, but on the first day of this month, the spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms Hua Chunying, shared the results of a series of polls on Twitter.
The polls from Edelman, Gallup, Ipsos and others, unsurprisingly, favourably compared China with the United States.
