This is an important point. But I'd also like to convey that the abuses that are there are not broadcast the way they are in the US. So there's also a thick fog of obscurity that hides the problems in the PRC. The PRC is repressive, especially to minority groups, but there's a consistency and predictability to it that is not there in the US. A rule of law if you will. I am not condoning that, it is awful, but they plan, pass, and rule predictably with a long term agenda. That is not the case with the repression in the US where the violence has an agenda, but comes and goes without the same degree of process. If I were to distill it, I'd say that PRC is procedural, prioritizing national unity and party loyalty. The US is haphazard, prioritizing cruelty and personal fealty.

Lesser of two evils perhaps? A moralist can discuss that, not I.