The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.
That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.
The US is run by the capitalist class, and from their point of view China is “authoritarian,” because the Chinese state isn’t allowing the capitalist class to run China.
That’s what Western governments and Western corporate media really mean by “authoritarian” & “totalitarian” governments: that Western capitalist neocolonization is being stymied by those governments.
If the government is in control of anything, capitalists will claim authoritarianism. This is the way.