Memes

The authoritarianism is exercised differently in both countries. Mainly, the US state is openly more physically violent. In China, surveillance, media control, censorship, and control of their population in general is stronger (but the US is rapidly trying to catch up). As one example, the US wouldn't have been able to effectively silence Naomi Wu and presumably remove her way of making a living at the time, if she was a US citizen in the US.