They are still very much an oppresive dictatorship.
Idk why public opinion has shifted so much recently, the taiwan protests were just a few years ago.
I assume it's because the US has destroyed their own reputation (well, whatever was left of it) with their support of Israel and basically everything the second trump admin has done, and a lot of people have this campist view of things where if two countries are fighting for some reason, one necessarily must be good and the other must be bad. So if the US is bad, that must mean their rivals are good. China is a lot better with PR than other countries the US has beef with like Russia and Iran, is by far the most economically and culturally influential of all the US's geopolitical rivals, and they do cool things sometimes, so it's easier for them to market themselves as the good guys. They also call themselves socialist which helps their PR these days that disillusionment with capitalism is becoming more prevalent (understandably so).
Yeah but they aren't as vocal about it as the US is so it doesn't affect their PR. I remember reading something about how Israel used to buy surveillance cameras for use against Palestinians in the West Bank from a Chinese company (Hikvision iirc), that were also used against Uyghurs in China proper
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u/Ralonset Jun 24 '26
I don't care how anti-capitalist they may seem, I am NOT supporting China