China is a huge, huge country, historically it's been difficult for the central government to exercise its control all over its territory. This would be the realization of that historical desire.
That sounds like a better argument for China breaking up than it does using force and dystopian surveillance to maintain a lock on power.
I don’t you’d see more than base level noise support to break up China, internally. Probably would not even register 1%. It’s an uncontested tenet for Chinese that they are the descendants and heirs of an uninterrupted, uncorrupted people stretching five thousand years and counting.
That sounds like a better argument for China breaking up than it does using force and dystopian surveillance to maintain a lock on power.