The people of China have had incredible success overthrowing corrupt local bureaucrats.
Though it came as a shock to Western audiences, who understand China to be a tyrannical state-capitalist authoritarian regime, observers in the imperial periphery have always seen things rather differently. As far back as 2004, Fidel Castro argued that China has objectively become the most promising hope and the best example for all Third World countries, and in August 2014, he reaffirmed this sanguine outlook: Xi Jinping is one of the strongest and most capable revolutionary leaders I have met in my life. In May 2018, Professor Yanis Varoufakis, former Greek Minister of Finance, assuaged an anxious member of the audience at a Cambridge Forum: I have to tell you that, from my understanding of China, its a very interesting social experiment, in the sense that at the local level or the regional level you now have a boisterous democracy, with popular success stories in overthrowing local authorities, local bureaucrats who have been corrupt.
Later that same year, before his 2019 ouster in a US-backed coup, Evo Morales said I trust China very much. China has always accompanied us in many of our aspirations in the social, cultural, political and economic spheres and that Chinas support and aid to Bolivias economic and social development never attaches any political conditions. In 2020 the former Liberian Minister for Public Works W. Gyude Moore bluntly wrote China has built more infrastructure in Africa in two decades than the West has in centuries, China is also our friend, and in 2021 Iran signed a 25-year cooperation agreement with China.
Despite the vehement insistence of Western punditry, world consensus against Chinas tyranny fails to materialize.