I really hope with what's happening in China and Russia right now, people in the world, especially the free world, should wake up to the false anticipation of authoritarian economic models and delusions of totalitarian governments.
Whatever progress China made after disguised itself into the free world's market, at the core it was by exploiting peasants who were forcefully turned into cheap laborers and at the cost of polluting & exhausting any natural resources possible, leaving behind air unbreathable, water full of heavy metals and a food industry utterly untrustworthy & filled with scandals.
Your individual freedom, freedom of thoughts, freedom of information, and freedom of expression, it's not worth it to trade that for any amount of money. No need to mention your freedom of staying in whichever city you want, having whatever amount of children you want, either more or less, and your freedom to go out the door and buy food so you won't starve when there's a pandemic outbreak.
The truth is what has been happening in China for the past almost 40 years is just a detour. A capitalism detour. They stole the idea of capitalism, without ever acknowledging the term "Capitalism", decorated with an authoritarian style of lawlessness and ruthlessness, and used it for money grab.
Without a change in its political foundation, China will eventually go back to its regular path of famines and purges.
Shutting down doors and tormenting powerless people is what China does the best and will surely happen more often and more viciously in the near future.
