Echoing another poster, people and individuals who are Chinese are not their government. You shouldn't equate working with Chinese individuals and talent as a tacit support of their government.
An interesting thread last year suggested that in some cases companies spent many years "doing business in China" as a form of ... de-escalation to avoid nuclear war, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17004546
Plenty of Chinese people call the communist party "The organization" because as far as they are concerned, its the only power structure that exists in China.
Of course, all that’s based on hearsay, so who knows what the reality is.