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"I'm a completely leftist liberal, therefore I don't have any particular paranoia about China" is a type error. China is an autocracy, with a track record of doing things that warrant paranoia.

I don't really care what you mean by leftist, but you definitely cannot claim to be a liberal and have no "paranoia" about China.

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There's a scale I suppose. Paranoia is "China deliberately created and released Covid". My non-paranoid opinion is that China is a large and powerful country which has complete control over its citizens and companies and very much wants the US out of its hair so that it can take over large chunks of Asia with no pushback.

OP meant left in contrast to right-wing Americans, who typically espouse a more anti-China worldview.

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