What makes anti China propaganda so effective is that people want to believe it.
Believing that western system is fundamentally better allows justifying all the horrors we see day to day by saying that the alternatives are even worse, and so we shouldn't even try to change anything.
Accepting that China managed to find a better path that the west is actively fighting against means having to accept that the west is on the wrong side of history. That's a hard pill to swallow for a lot of people.
They’ve been riding the high of their supposed moral/national superiority that it infuriates them to see people (that they used to pity as inferior species) rising up to their level or even surpassing them. It shatters their image as the chosen ones, the “good and civilised” side.
This behaviour can also be seen in liberals from the mainland, HK and TW where they still regurgitate 30-40 year old talking points while their beloved western idols no longer maintain the utopia like image they’ve been promoting.
They’ve been riding the high of their supposed moral/national superiority that it infuriates them to see people (that they used to pity as inferior species) rising up to their level or even surpassing them. It shatters their image as the chosen ones, the “good and civilised” side.
This behaviour can also be seen in liberals from the mainland, HK and TW where they still regurgitate 30-40 year old talking points while their beloved western idols no longer maintain the utopia like image they’ve been promoting.