This was gonna be my suggestion too, it's one of the most thought-terminating words of the last few years. Whatever definition it once had has now been entirely boiled down to "When a foreign government does something that is against Western interests". You could be the most tyrannical regime in existence, you could bolt cameras and trackers onto every person, you could enforce arbitrary clothing standards, you could limit the mobility of every person in the country to be a tiny area for maximum control, but you would still not once be called authoritarian so long as western capitalists had unfettered access to your economy.