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There really is little commonality between the two cultures.

What commonalities do you think there are?

President Xi's writings are full of humanism that would make at least one of the US political parties blush. Versus his tactics seem to be the envy of the other -- and in spite of the polarization in the US they probably could be brought to admire Xi's values.

Have you ever lived in China, or spent time with Chinese? Or are you basing this solely on the propaganda?

I have not spent time in mainland China but I have spent time in Hong Kong and while there sought out and immersed in Chinese "propaganda" there. Which was conspicuous and omnipresent. Have had a good amount of exposure to Chinese nationals professionally and socially, probably in the vicinity of 10% overall of each.

Culture in the home is not that.

And HK culture is not mainland culture, though the party is trying to make it so. Not that there is a single mainland culture. Hokkien != Shanghainese != Beijing, etc.

If you strip things down to the rawest motivations, then sure everyone is similar. But all the details will look extremely different to most Americans, even CNY, filial piety, meals and family structure, etc.

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