The business-political leadership in the United States shares the same goals as the Chinese leadership - maintaining tight control over their own power and weal

The business-political leadership in the United States shares the same goals as the Chinese leadership - maintaining tight control over their own power and wealth - but each uses quite different tactics to achieve that goal. Both are equally alarmed by political movements that seek to weaken their status, in particular. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China The U.S. government is pretty steadily pushing towards adopting many elements of the Chinese model, such as censorship of social media (although more often by the tactic of amplifying some themes and suppressing others, shadow-banning and so on). Does anyone really doubt that the current political leadership would jump at the chance to assign everyone a 'social credit score', for example, that would influence their ability to travel, get a job, etc., based on criteria that they themselves determined (e.g. support for US foreign policy decisions, domestic economic programs, positive attitudes about a two-party political system largely controlled by a small number of wealthy donors, etc.)? The U.S. is more in danger of becoming like China, than the other way around.