That's a bit of a straw man. The concern is the western countries taking actions to become more like China rather than less like China. It's natural to worry a

That's a bit of a straw man. The concern is the western countries taking actions to become more like China rather than less like China. It's natural to worry about convergence because eventually these things just become run away systems that are too entrenched to change. Think about how we used to differentiate ourselves from the totalitarian regimes of the world in the post war communist fighting era. This pool of attributes is shrinking. Indefinite imprisonment without trail, national security letters, labelling the media as traitors, labelling companies that enable encryption as traitors, an omnipresent eavesdropping apparatus, etc...