No one is saying China is a liberal democracy. Nonetheless, in some areas, particularly economic, they enjoy more freedom than in the US, especially places like California and New York. China is particularly bad on religious freedom, and unfortunately, things seem to be trending poorly in other areas.
Provided you pay the appropriate people under the table.
They are a massive authoritarian state. Just disappeared a million into their retraining camps. State-owned businesses even when they pretend otherwise.
This thread and these ideas are wacky.
Having to sign over one’s intellectual property to the state is not economic freedom. Those who deal with Red China care nothing for the human cost of satiating their greed; however, there are too many like-minded (to the Party) people running things in the USA now that make things too hard to do business here and thus China is posited as the “answer” to what is supposed to be a false dilemma.