Yes, absolutely. The Deng era was characterized by a like of Gorbachev like opening, far fewer things were censored. After the whole Falun Gong purge, which it

Yes, absolutely. The Deng era was characterized by a like of Gorbachev like opening, far fewer things were censored. After the whole Falun Gong purge, which it seems was partially used as an excuse for the hardliners to purge the moderates, a series of increasingly fascist leaders have taken power, culminating with Xi (now "president for life"). Under Xi, they have stoked nationalism a lot more, the same as Trump did here, at the same time as they have built a surveillance state like no other. Yes, the US isn't innocent here, but let's not draw false equivalences between what the NSA was doing, and installing cameras every 10 feet with deep neural nets to track everyone movement from the time they leave their home to the time they return, and even tag ethnic features (label video detected features as "uighur") There's been a rise of nationalism around the globe, with fascists being elected everywhere. And that's why the West should resist China, not because China's rise is bad, but because China's rise with Xi at the helm is bad. I wouldn't have said resist Germany prior to Hitler either, as there was nothing wrong with their economy improving after the horrors of WW1. It's all the other shit they were doing under the Nazis that called for a boycott. Ditto for Japan and the US oil embargo. Japanese economic growth? Not a bad thing. Japanese economic growth used to invade, pillage, and rape China? A good reason for resistance. This is something hard to get through to a lot of people, but criticism of the CCP is not criticism of the Chinese people, China, or Chinese culture. But the CCP has thoroughly convinced people that to oppose them, is to "insult China" and provoke a nationalist response. The resistance we need is to fascism, of all forms.