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
People who've never come close to having a successful revolution absolutely love finger-wagging at those who have. Same energy as those who've never written a line of code trying to tell me how to do my job.