Not gonna lie, being in good faith, the Chinese government having a 90% approval rate looks sus, at least to a Westerner. The West looks at this and shouts “That means they are brainwashed!” which I don’t buy into. Yet that idea that all these anti-imperialist people are just brainwashed really, well, brainwashes a lot of people. How can this be countered?
It’s not worth discussing something as stupid as that to a person that is as stupid to believe it.
I’d rather reverse the question and tell them to consider if we are the ones being brainwashed.