Political Trust in China

The authoritarian regime in China is a prime target of the US-led war on autocracy; however, the regime claims a majority of the Chinese people trust the government, with national surveys since the 1990s supporting this assertion.How much do Chinese citizens actually trust the one-party regime?Instead of dismissing survey results, Li examines the contexts in which Chinese citizens are predisposed to say they trust the government.He argues that political trust in China is a power-accommodating and nonbinding hope rather than a rights-based and binding expectation as Chinese citizens do not have the right to grant and retract trust through free and fair elections.