The alternative to democracy is not letting people have a say in government, and allowing rulers to rule for long periods until they pass down power to favoured successors or are violently overthrown. Both of those things are absolutely terrible for the health and safety of a society.
Is it really that hard to say we dropped the ball here, badly, and we need to do better, rather than immediately going to whataboutism about China? Yes, they have problems. That in no way contradicts the fact that we need to do better.
The median standard of living across the democratic world is at an all-time high. Things have never been better in the liberal world.
You talk about issues of immigration, but China has a system that maintains internal passports, where citizens need permission of the government to move, and should they do so unofficially they face serious discrimination, and a denial of basic services. [2]
None of this of course, discusses the labor camp system, the imprisionment of political activists, or the murder and organ harvesting of religious minorities.
Just because you may not have heard of an issue doesn't mean that they don't exist, particularly when dealing with a country whose Human Rights records is one of the worst in the world.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/25/at-least-12000...
[2] https://www.economist.com/news/special-report/21600798-china...
2. Immigration has slowed down, and immigrants have generally seen better outcomes not withstanding the current abuses by ICE
3. Race issues are worse this year than they have been, but exceptions occur. We as a country are at least in the beginning stages of a conversation about it, which has not and may not occur in other countries.
4. The National Debt is increasing, but budget deficits fell drastically under Obama. National debt does not necessarily grow at the same rate as GDP.
You've bought into a lot of propaganda unfortunately. I really recommend you pull a Descartes and re-evaluate from ground zero. Not to say China isn't a rising power, but Democracy is not dead.
China is about to become the world's most indebted nation on a GDP to debt ratio. If they're not already. If you count a reasonable estimate for shadow debt, they already are.
Total debt vs GDP for China is up over 300% at this point.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/28/chinas-debt-surpasses-300-pe...
To grow their economy by ~$600 billion annually, they need to take on roughly $4 to $5 trillion in debt every year. Their return on debt is extremely bad at this point. No nation in world history has taken on as much debt, faster, than China has since 2007. The S&P projection is that China will expand its huge debt levels by another 77% by just 2021.
Even China's households are now hyper leveraging:
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-15/chinese-c...
just because we have the freedom to make social changes doesn’t mean it’s all the country can do
as long as china’s best and brightest keep coming to live in america and send their kids to american colleges i won’t beleive “the tipping point has passed”
Admit or not, the overall impression these days is that China is an uprising power while US is in the decline. At the time they're building the best transportation system and investing heavily into robots and AI, we are here debating gender-less restroom, legalizing marijuana, keeping proving president is tied with Russia,etc.
The tipping point has passed, the gap will keep getting wider, based on history, there is no fix, countries rise and fall cyclically.