> The difference is that here we have the freedom to criticize and organize against it.

Edit: I am mostly addressing the organize against it part. USA has far better free speech protections than China

Do you ? As an outsider it doesn't really look that way. After watching events and protest around BLM, suddenly all those rights have gotchas in them.

Watching USA protesters and Honkong protesters, and goverment respones to them, there were far more similarities than differences. (Well china was still worse, but not by as much as most USA people seem to think).

The biggest difference in USA and china at the moments is that in USA some Politicians still listen to people (if only mostly out of self interest)