[hujun]

"My second thought is how badly Chinese communism must be doing that they need such a massive effort in order to ..."

China have visa-free visit policy for many countries, you could actually go there to see how "bad" it is

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/china-visa-free-travel-p...

[rangestransform]

You don’t get the Chinese citizen experience by visiting as a tourist. Even as a fan of western individualist values, I think it would be nice to have some of the nice things China has, like low petty criminality, high speed rail, and a modern metro system. However, there are very real problems with authoritarianism, including the tail end of covid zero which almost incited a popular uprising, getting rid of covid zero without a plan or mRNA, internal mobility control that effectively creates castes, and the lack of full rule of law.