No, people don't like this.

lmao, like every other major power has been a bastion of free speech until China came up. McCarthyism, what? Politkovskaya, who?

They seem to be missing a critical piece - for the horrors that China inflicted on its own population, it also become a preeminent world power and pulled millions out of poverty.

What seems to be happening elsewhere is an organized robbery of state institutions by politicians and oligarchs, with oppression and censorship used to keep people from pointing out the obvious.

Maybe they're not paying attention to the part of that cycle where they start falling out of windows.