Comment by anigbrowl

I think Xi is pretty benevolent as dictators go. Bad things you could point to are the continued threats against Taiwan, repressive policy in Xinjiang, and strategic support of Russia (whose dictator I think is far more amoral than Xi). Good things are Xi's apparent preference for advancing China's interests rather than self-gratification, his hostility to corruption, and the transformation of the country from an industrial to a technological superpower with a paternalistic but not suffocating style of governance.