I think part of it is the disillusionment of us Americans with the USA. I grew up being proud to be a citizen of the USA. The more I learned of our true history, the more I grew up, the slipping quality of life - the huge issues we have with healthcare, infrastructure, income inequality and ineffectual government ... All of that seems at least less bad in China.

Now, I'm not gonna glaze China - that country has plenty of its own problems. However, they at least seem to be embracing emerging and mature green energy tech, are not on an anti intellectual path and have a functional government (which is not to say I don't have plenty of problems with China). Also they seem to be less interested in killing people for ... Reasons? ... Vs the USA who conducts diplomacy by violent means as the normal course.

Anyways yeah I guess China just seems like a better place than the USA right now but you could level plenty of valid complaints at both countries.

I'm guessing there's more in China but yeah, there is a lot here.

Lemmy has limited propaganda detection. China's government and the US both warp history, and China's government has employed thousands of disinformation "keyboard warriors" well before the era of AI disinformation and propaganda. I've personally met one. The difference between the two governments, for now, is the ability to talk about issues like the live organ harvesting of political prisoners or China's slow genocide of the East Turkestan nation.