Beware of Chinese propaganda outlets as well. Especially on Lemmy.

Whatever big NGO will have decent information on China, as will anyone who’s been there. It’s openly authoritarian and aggressively nationalist, but pretty well-functioning and stability-loving within those significant constraints. And like anywhere in peacetime, a normal day is normal.

(At least in the core Chinese areas. Obviously Xinjiang is fully in the middle of a genocide, and Tibet has notes of the same thing)