Honestly in what way would China be considered better?

They check all the boxes:

• Malicious Trade and Finance shenanigans
• Dictatorship
• Militant Expansionists
• Constant Psyops
• Supporting horrible militant factions across the globe
• Run by racial supremacists
• Cracks down on non-official religions
• Massive polluters (used to have the excuse of low emissions per capita until they started reversing policies meant to limit capita)

Every bad thing you can say about the USA goes for China and then some.