Part of the issue is that the chinese people literally don't see what the world is saying, the only information they get is constantly filtered and developed by the state. Really the state has created a perfect machine to control the thoughts of the population, its a very scary situation. So we'd maybe be able to conduct some information warfare involving full blown cyber war of unknown proportions attempting to hack into the chinese internet, I think things like starlink are going to make it harder for the chinese gov to implement the great firewall, however maybe they will just launch their own starlink...

Being evil by western standards is a small price to pay for huge quality of life improvements - from going to sleep hungry to central European wages, from dirt roads to biggest (if not best) rail and highway network in the world, from planting rice knees deep in mud to nice city apartment and office/engineering job. To Chinese population this rhetoric might sound like F you I got mine.