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The opposite is true, actually.
In my experience, the liberals will now say your source is incorrect/misleading/seeseepee propaganda for some unfalsifiable reason (their opinion) or they will immediately jump to racism and call the Chinese robots who cannot think for themselves.
The first is typical online, the second offline, where there is no paper trail.
I see the latter all the time online, usually via the "brainwashing" narrative. Sinophobia runs deep and is out in the open.
That isn't an objective measure. You're not examining characteristics of governance, you are examining public views on governance. In the 80s Canada had an image problem domestically and internationally. Did Canada change? Hell no! We engaged one of the most successful PR campaigns in modern history, and suddenly we're all stroking each other off and receiving international plaudits, even while we continue to burn our children's future for fuel.
Show your objective measures, then.
Guessing it's some nonsense like conflating a multi-party system with democracy, even though multi-party systems have a worse track-record when it comes to actually representing the public will because factionalism better allows for opportunism. Fundamentally, the policy proposal process in the PRC is more bottom-up, while being executed from the top-down.
Who has any right to tell the people of China how they should choose to govern themselves? Evidently they approve of their system at higher rates, believe democracy is more important at higher rates, and believe they are democratic at higher rates, all of which are consistent.
Cute rhetoric. The dichotomy isn't, "ask people what they think vs tell people what to think." The dichotomy is, "subjective vs objective." You could be taking objective measurements. What you are measuring is not what you are claiming. These charts only allow you to talk about people's perceptions (as it clearly says on the infographic) and not the underlying realities. Your implicit point has to be that believing you have equal right is just as good as actually HAVING them.
What is democracy if not rule by the people? What better objective measure of democracy would you posit than the people directly saying that their input is heard, their interests are pressed forth, and that their structure is democratic?