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I think this is a worthless argument. There are no shortage of Chinese citizens who have strong disagreements with the current CPC, and also there is some substantial difference in opinion within that 90 million besides. Furthermore, pretending they are a monolith for the sake of argument, you obviously don't believe 90 million people can't be wrong because we can point to reactionary populations that size or larger in the US, in India, and many more especially if we look at cross-national allied groups.
Yeah, if we were in 1910's Russia there wouldn't be a massive population to point to as communists as reinforcement, but it wouldn't make them any less correct for being communists. All ideologies start out as a minority. Liberalism was also a minority when it was first emerging but it still became the dominant ideology.
To try to steelman the point in the meme though, there is probably some value to seeing that 90 million people support something and then looking into it to see if there's anything valid there. It should raise some concern that you could be wrong, but it doesn't mean you are.