Don’t look at the Uyghur and Tibetan genocides behind the mirror. Look any country that ce realizes power in the hands of few will inevitably have that power used in terrible and stupid ways, you see that with the supreme court and the current president of the US, but you definitely saw it with the Stalin and Mao regimes back in the day and Xi isn’t that much better. Just because you aren’t aware of their expansionish and international bullying tendancies doesn’t mean they don’t exist. You can say that the current US government is bad and still be right about the CCP being bad as well. The best government is one that is responsive to its peoples needs and even if you ignore the genocides above just look at how Xi’s government handled lockdowns where they literally welded people into their apartments to stop the spread of covid, the crackdown on Hong Kong’s protests and free speech over their elected representatives being decided by the CCP and not the people of Hong Kong, the land grabs in northern India, the territorial claims in the south china sea, and all this while their country is suffering a severe economic crisis created by the government central planning and how properties are managed in china. Is there good in China? Yes they have a vibrant tech industry that is able to upgrade GPUs on the fly with more ram or build custom Iphones for example but that doesn’t stop the fact that private messages are scraped and purged if they don’t comport with the allowed speech from the CCP.
You might think that means I like the current way things are going stateside but that would be wrong, with tech giants asking for legal ID for using your own hardware, for backdoors in encrypted messaging, for you no longer being able to own what you bought and paid for, means that freedom and privacy seems to be commodities that the rich and powerful, no matter the type of government, don’t want you to have. I can guarantee that the fact that we can’t get universal healthcare in the US has a similar issue in china that they would love to have access to and wouldn’t be hard to implement but would mean that CCP control would be lessened, be it freedom of speech (see Tineman Square protests), freedom of assembly (the same), freedom of movement (see covid restrictions where people were welded into their apartments and certain regions of china (not just military instillations, where people can’t enter or leave such as Xinjiang).
In short China is what it has always been a land empire in east Asia who forces homogenity in their culture and doesn’t like dissent, but promotes education for at least the ruling class and usually becomes too top heavy and collapses in on itself into civil war that kills millions.
First of all, how do you not have diabetes drinking that much Kool-Aid? Second if a serial rapist rapes a serial killer who is the good guy between the two of them? Trump claims to have very different support numbers than reality shows and in a dictatorship being publicly against the regime is a great way to accidentally fall out of a window down and onto a bunch of bullets or somehow get polonium poisoning for some reason. A whataboutism is a great way to distract from the issues at hand but just because the US has a bunch of issues with democracy doesn’t mean china doesn’t have issues, and denying them with state propaganda (an appeal to authority) with arguable levels of factuality doesn’t negate the issue.