This article breaks up political trust into two cognitively distinct, but related categories: competence versus intention evaluations. This was tested using valid methods and the empirical evidence showed that (1) the surveyed Chinese  urban residents effectively differentiated between their central government’s competence to deliver good governance; (2) the Chinese urbanites did consult different sources of information and heuristics when evaluating their government’s competence and intention, respectively. I think this article is kind of hard to follow, but basically the article starts off by saying  it  is hard to be able  to truly measure  trust, competence, and intentions. It establishes that although it might be hard to define and research these, what has almost been found certain is that these two traits are very different. You can be competent and not have ill intentions, just the as you be incompetent, but have good intentions. In order for people to trust their government there must be a certain level of confidence that their government is competent and has good intentions. People’s opinions of their government’s competence is best measured by evaluating the performance of the policy output. Also, people’e opinion of their governments intentions are best measured by evaluating  information like political scandals and corruption that falls  outside the normal values for corruption and scandal in a government.

In China’s case despite the authoritarian nature the Chinese government has been widely trusted by its people. Scholars have not  been able to pin point an exact reason for why the trust is so high, but just attributes it to a multitude if things. I tried to put myself in the shoes of the Chinese people, which is hard. From the outside looking in it does not appear that China has a working and thriving government, and it seems like there is a lot  of  political unrest. However, for the Chinese people who have not had a stable and thriving government for 60 years I guess it is just normal. The government appears to be doing stable. The CCP  and government continues to make reforms every once in a while to make  it appear as though it is working to make  improvements and to keep the CCP in power and this give off the impression of competence. I do not think that the Chinese government  has bad intentions I believe they believe that they are doing the best thing for China and the Chinese people. So I guess if I lived  in China I might have a high trust in our government, but the United State’s system being so different it is really  hard to stay objective and see China’s government in a high light.