Xi Jinping is also a dictator.
I was gaming with friends on Discord when the topic of China passingly came up and one guy started going off about how China and Russia are both socially backward authoritarian dictatorships and how China is communist in name only, oppresses its minority groups and no true socialist should support them.
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Anyway, they’re also pro-NATO
Ask them why a Han supremacist country would force population control exclusively on the Han population lol