Obviously China is going to look bad if you consider western liberal democracy and free market capitalism to be objectively good things and have them as the standards by which you judge the political-economic systems of global south countries.
If you're judging China based on how similar it is to Western European countries then you're not going to like it.
When you believe truth is only dependent on who says it (west=lies, not west=truth) you start believing nonsense like china has not flaws, or events with verifiable footage (1989 TS) are exaggerations/a western lies.
Would technically also, and indeed commonly go the other direction, but please .ml, stop navigating the world based soley on whether the west supports/is against something
Based 💪🇨🇳. I encourage everyone who believes the crap they say about China to go there for themselves and talk with the people, you find people who disagree with the government and they speak out loud about it, also people who remember the very bad times China went through and are gratefully for the amazing increase in quality of life they've got.
Literally any country that enforces its laws is "authoritarian". It doesn't mean anything.