Don’t forget the ‘think of the children’ crowd who simultaneously pass policies that make kids starve. Whenever you hear those two justifications given for why a policy needs to be implemented you have to read it at least twice as hard, because they’re often used as cover to pass some of the most draconian shit.
It’s true. Xi is a dictator. More at 11. But let’s be honest, when has the US ever had a problem with dictators. Heck the US basically installed half of them during the cold war.