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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

This is what we tend to mean by sinophobia. There's a difference between knowledgeable and nuanced critique of the CPC and PRC in general, and repeating the most bog-standard confidently incorrect bullshit you can find. This utter chauvanism is spoken the same way European colonizers spoke about Africans back in the height of colonialism, and still today in some cases.

Or if not, look at 996

Illegal, limited largely to the 40 companies in Beijing and Shanghai. The average working hours in China is 46 per week.

the mere fact that anyone can barely mention Winnie the Pooh inside China or they’ll go to a “reeducation camp"

Also bullshit, Winnie the Pooh is legal and fairly popular.

the fact that they repress violently every single protest or criticism to the Party-State

Again, bullshit. Criticism is popular and constructive in China, and protests do happen infrequently. Most people support the government though so it doesn't come to that.

or the fact that they have the biggest data fusion and surveillance network of the world

Incorrect, Five Eyes countries do. This is projection from the west.

just to control what can be said, thought, looked at, searched or done

Incorrect, brainwashing does not exist.

not to mention the Great China’s Firewall.

Which is done to help develop a Chinese sovereign internet free of foreign influence, such as from western tech giants.

or is it that for you, all that independently-checked and blindly peer-reviewed facts are just a “USA propaganda”.

None of what you said is peer-reviewed.