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Improving material conditions? No need. We're just gonna sell them this stupid story about salvation

Socialism is a transition period between capitalism (and other modes of production that came before it) towards communism. Socialism even by Lenin's and Marx's words is a period riddled with contradictions. The state's role is to work towards communism. China is applying marxism-leninism to its context and is doing amazing while at it. Strengthening the productive forces as to combat imperialism is the way to go and China knows it. China doesn't need western ultra-lefts living at the tit of the empire to tell it what it has to do to ensure the survival of its sovereign state for the betterment of the working class's material conditions.

How so? They've got less tyrants than most of the western world for sure

The fascist empire strikes again

Of course they are led by a marxist-leninist vanguard party. Just because they are leading a state owned market economy in order to build up their productive forces so they can counteract the power of US hegemony/imperialism, doesn't mean they aren't doing socialist state building.

You don't have to like the government, but they're the sole reason China is slowly starting to take the lead in science and engineering. These are the fruits of marxism-leninism, whether you like it or not.

The Western media hegemony working in lockstep with its handlers in the White House, regardless of their pretend positioning as for or against the current American regime.

Well, it's good for the US ruling class that the US is not a democracy, so whatever the plebs think is irrelevant to the decision making process, whether they're for it or against it.

It also contributes to the climate catastrophe by providing copious amounts of oil. It also enjoys the fruits of the exploitation in the Global South, hence it can redistribute said fruits of imperialism to its people, which is indeed better than the US oligarchs hoarding it all, but not by a lot.

They should've let Israel do the airstrike, then it would've been legal

The biggest issue with No King's, at least out of my perspective is that it is only centered around Trump and his cronies, and doesn't actually target the system that keeps churning out people like Trump, produces them and puts them into power. Americans believe that Trump happened to them like a natural disaster would, and that they were sadly just ill prepared. They fail to see and correctly point out that the system thrives on people like Trump and actively pursues putting them into positions of power. Until that isn't addressed, these protests will bring about no material change.

I for one welcome this development. China, even if just out of national security interests, has proven to be quite a valuable partner in championing open source alternatives to Western technologies locked under key, proprietary licensing, and other such arrangements, which led to monopolies. China first started doing this with designing and actually building RISC-V architecture devices as a way to move away from x86 and ARM architectures. Now let's hope that UBIOS will be supported in a similar, open source way, so that we can gain more sovereignty over our own devices.