He probably does believe a lot of it. I noticed that several of his stories mentioned the need for governments to put limits on population size due to various planet-wide crises, even though it often made no sense in the context of the story, let alone the morality of it.
But I also noticed that in The Three Body Problem the story didn’t make the 1960’s/1970’s Chinese government look good at all, with one of the main characters losing her professor father to zealots of the Cultural Revolution persecuting him for things like his belief in the Theory of Relativity. But maybe the current regime doesn’t have a problem with criticizing the government from decades back as long as you don’t say anything bad about more recent government policy?
