Genuine question building on the Beckley/Brands article I started with since the CCP is actively trying to make autocracy safe and appealing worldwide by undermining democracies. Why do some posters here (and in related threads) seem to put the CCP/China's one party system on a bit of a pedestal, praising its stability, poverty reduction, role as a global supplier/builder, or success against the West, while constantly denouncing the USA as the real destroyer, imperialist force, or source of chaos and destabilization? Despite the west's flaws (interventions, domestic issues, social issues) is it not better than a Xi's king for life rule, 1 party state, the surveillance state, suppression of dissent, or the historical track record of similar vanguard party ideologies that were responsible for mass deaths by the millions, purges under Mao/Stalin era.. Is this driven more by anti Western geopolitics, a belief that actually existing socialism in China works despite the authoritarianism, or something else?
