Struggle session engage. Post your pathetic arguments so that I and the other China Good Posters can dismantle them and you can learn.
Key points:
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China is a democracy. It is arguably the most functional and responsive democracy in a major country today. Its citizens consider it more democratic than the citizens of almost any other country do their own.
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China is on a clear path to socialism and economic justice. No nation in history has ever reduced poverty in anything like the way China is doing it.
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The vast majority of people in the PRC support the CPC. This is not due to being brainwashed. Americans are brainwashed and still hate their government.
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Almost everything you hear about China in the West sits on a spectrum between malicious misrepresentation to outright fabrication with no basis in reality.
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China's ascension to the premiere global power is an extremely good thing for world peace and the global socialist movement. While China does not actively support other socialisms (sadly it's not as good as the USSR in this regard) it does not do imperialism. China will allow socialisms around the world to flourish simply by not actively crushing them like the US and Europe.
Why is democracy interpreted as the ability to vote for a president every 4 years? Is that what you define as democracy, the ability to vote for 2 puppets of the same neoliberal regime?
I make the distinction that Xi did not personally extend his own term limits, because it signifies that he did not have that power himself. This is an important distinction, because if others granted him extra term limits, they can also take it away.
Which leads me to the question, why does it matter that Xi can stay as president for life if that is what the people want? Would you not say it's worse that elections every four years guarantees that nothing gets done, but distracts the masses?
You'll also hate this argument, but here it anyway. Xi does not actually want to remain president for life, link.