Annual youth identity surveys conducted in Hong Kong reveal a dramatic collapse of identification with China among people under thirty.
Support for Chinese identity has fallen to near zero, not only in Hong Kong but also among Taiwanese communities in Japan and even within China itself, exposing the growing global rejection of the CCP regime.

2017-08-05
The following is a continuation of the previous chapter.
Not wanting to be regarded as Chinese.
Yaita.
One of the laws currently being debated within China concerns internet control.
In the event of a serious incident, authorities can suspend internet access at their discretion.
The justification is to stop rumors and false information.
Countries that operate this way generally do not last long.
I went to Beijing in 2007 and then to Hong Kong for three years starting in 2008, and at that time I felt China’s influence expanding rapidly.
It felt as if Hong Kong was ceasing to be Hong Kong, as China became a giant magnet pulling everything into itself.
However, the moment the Xi Jinping administration came into power, it was as if the magnetic poles reversed, and Hong Kong began to move away rapidly, with Taiwan also drifting away.
Among people in Hong Kong in their twenties and younger today, there is probably no one who likes China.
Fukushima.
Since the handover, the University of Hong Kong has conducted an annual “Youth Identity Survey.”
The survey targets people aged 18 to 29, and at the time of the handover about 31 percent said they were Chinese in a broad sense.
About 30 percent said they were Chinese because their roots lay in China.
In a survey conducted just before the 2008 Beijing Olympics, 43 percent said they were Chinese.
At that time, they may have felt proud of China for hosting the Olympics.
However, if the same survey were conducted now, only 3.1 percent would say they are Chinese.
In other words, more than 90 percent say they are not Chinese.
Yaita.
The same phenomenon is occurring in Japan.
Until recently, Taiwanese residents in Japan belonged to either Republic of China–affiliated or People’s Republic of China–affiliated Taiwanese organizations.
There were also many overseas Chinese organizations, and many people belonged to multiple groups.
That arrangement was convenient in many ways.
Recently, however, there has been no shortage of voices saying, “We don’t want to be called Chinese.”
Organizations exclusively for Taiwanese have emerged, with movements asserting, “We are not Chinese.”
Among them are Japanese people with roots in Taiwan, as well as people who have maintained a Taiwanese identity throughout their lives.
Even in China, so-called Taiwanese waishengren—people with roots in China—are inexplicably joining Taiwanese organizations and expressing strong rejection of China.
This clearly shows how much China is disliked in the international community.
Even within China itself, people are steadily distancing themselves from the Communist Party regime, though fear-based governance keeps them silent for now.