Exactly. Glad to see that many people out there still have their cool heads and see through the ideological nonsense and lens of extreme double standards that t

Exactly. Glad to see that many people out there still have their cool heads and see through the ideological nonsense and lens of extreme double standards that the mainstream government/media want to force upon their populace. After all it's just ideological propaganda. Singapore has been much more "authoritarian" than China in many aspects. Regimes in Central America supported by CIA brutally kill their citizens every day. Saudi backed by the US wrecks havoc in the region. The media doesn't give a damn, or at least has very restricted reportage. They only want to constantly attack China because China is regarded as a competitor/enemy, while Singapore and Saudi allies. As simple as that. In fact China is just rapidly turning into another US in a lot of aspects of the society. Xi is compared with Reagan for his pro-market stance. (Though he does indeed implement a lot of surveillance etc. as well.) The west just doesn't want to see their old order challenged. But little can be done to stop the rise of China now. Whether the reforms of Xi totally succeed is still unknown. There are of course a lot of uncertainties. But China as a world power is probably there to stay for a long time. The better thing to do for the western elites/governments is cope with this fact and think of strategies under this premise, instead of trying to deny/sabotage it with wishful thinking. Personally I'm horrified that China is turning into another US but that apparently doesn't have anything to do with the ideological buzzwords that those media so like to use.