It's certainly not on the same level, but it's essentially the same thing, government persecuting people due to their religious beliefs. Regardless of how severe the respective government crack down, it is indeed inherently evil.
As reasonable as some of your arguments are, I've yet to see you acknowledge that a lot of what the Chinese government does is indeed evil. This can be acknowledged without conceding your points on other issues regarding them.
I'll grant you that many evil things have occured in China and some continue to occur. Sometimes they result from government policy, sometimes from local officials' overzealousness. As I've already said, China has far to go.