> the Chinese people live and believe it.

some of them do; the well educated ones don't.

> propaganda can be true

except that it's not

I lived in China for years and am pretty well versed in life there under Xi and how the "rule of law" actually works there.

> unironically typing "guanxi" in this day and age

I left China in 2017 so it's _possible_ that things have dramatically changed since then, but from all accounts it hasn't. So it's not ironic because everything still runs on guanxi rather than on the rule of law.