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The author responded to one of the comments on the OP by saying:

"this was exactly the sort of missing latent context I was hoping to elicit from the community with my poorly-informed post"

Perhaps you could provide more missing latent context?

there is nothing to add because TFA is "not even wrong".

Can you recommend a better starting point on this topic?

if you want to get a sense of what China is like, you can look at how China talks about itself: https://chinaonchina.com/

news from Chinese media, translated into English.