The article is trash. Anyone at this point going on about how China is authoritarian is either ignorant or racist. Even if the claim is true, Western democracies produce nothing but genocidal regimes and genocide abetting media and businesses. Even whatever freedoms the West claims to honour have been attacked with multiple Western governments criminalizing opposition to genocide.

It’s wild how many people still think of China as the place that makes cheap crap. This perception is frozen somewhere in the 2000s.

This motherfucker has never bought anything of of Amazon, alibaba, or temu.

I’ll concede that china may make some quality products, but I doubt they’re exporting them through the mass channels.