Is that cause and effect defensible? I haven’t heard any Americans civilians or politicians claim overtly or subtly that the US should be more like China.
Probably not, it could be for other reasons but it’s certainly happening.
> I haven’t heard any Americans civilians or politicians claim overtly or subtly that the US should be more like China.
It depends what you mean by like China. Nobody’s advocating little red books but there’s plenty advocating for mass surveillance, control of speech, banning books or telling women what the can and can’t do with their bodies.