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
It was only recently that there was a Han (meta)cultural revival. Before then there was a big danger in parts of pre-revolutionary culture disappearing, while minority culture was being preserved. Look, for instance at the historical accuracy of the average Chinese Kung Fu flick vs today.