China is far, far better than the US. That doesn't mean China is awesome, it just means the US is far, far worse than anyone else in terms of tyranny and destructiveness. Working to destroy any population which disobeys you anywhere in the world makes you worse than anyone else.
The only reason nobody seems to recognize this in the west is because the US has such phenomenally excellent global narrative control. If it didn't, the entire world would've laughed when the butchers of the Middle East started pretending to care about Muslims in Xinjiang.
"China is more oppressive domestically, US is more oppressive abroad."

Nothing China is doing domestically is anywhere remotely as bad as what the US is doing abroad. Nothing China is doing rises to the level of the US killing millions and displacing tens of millions since 9/11.
This is an unassailably correct position; there exist no robust arguments to the contrary. The only reason people experience so much cognitive dissonance when I say this is because so few step all the way back and look at the big picture of our world as it presently exists.

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