If anyone is paying attention to whats happening in china, the country is going backwawds due to a mao-wanna-be leader. Its changing so fast that whether the picture you had about china is accurate is not an issue anymore tbh. Also note that like russia, they spend huge amount of money on foreign propoganda.
Please explain how Xi is like Mao? I don't even mean this in a good/bad way, just like specific similarities. Cuz it really just sounds like you think both Mao and Xi bad and so you are just saying Xi bad in a really roundabout way.