It's definitely sinophobia. Australia and New Zealand both had zero covid policies in place, they were comparable to those of the PRC and they were comparably successful while they lasted. Zero covid in both cases means region-wide lockdowns, shelter in place, quarantine, travel restrictions. And that just works. China simply has more efficiently organized mass testing, managed to pull it off on a much, much greater scale including in dozens of cities with more inhabitants than NZ and Australia combined and has kept at it much longer. But it's not as if Australian lockdowns weren't aUtHoRiTaRiAn. They were, and they had to be, and that saved hundreds of thousands of lifes. They also told people not to leave their house, they didn't let people cross state lines when there were local hotspots etc. You cannot save lifes in that situation without infringing some freedoms. It's a normal balancing act of different legal goods, like in this case saving lifes and being allowed to travel where you want. Liberal democracies do such balancing acts all the time. All governance infringes on some freedoms to guarantee others, that's unavoidable. And in this case, we have two western governments and the Chinese government weighing such rights in a very comparable way.

So that entire post boils down to "lockdowns are ok if done by white people".