That doesn’t mean the Chinese government and Chinese oligarchs aren’t also exercising an unjust degree of control over their own citizens. The Chinese government surveilling its citizens and tightly controlling the flow of information is not being done out of benevolence.

Just vague, unsourced orientalism. You only feel this "in your gut", because your are propagandized by western media to hate the enemies of the US.

Thank you for claiming that Badguyism literally does not exist. It makes it very easy to know that you are a fundamentally unserious person who I don’t need to listen to at all.

Authoritarian in the modern day is only used by westerners to denigrate countries that build alternatives models outside the western order (Cuba, Vietnam, PRC, Venezuela, Iran, Iraq, etc), so much so that it basically means: "when you tell white people they can't do imperialism".

Somehow, this country is excluded from its definition:

Go back to reddit

All your yap tells me is that you lack critical thinking or you're a fed. Good day