you've never been to China, have you? nothing like this exists in China.

As always, the empire projects its own sins onto others. Rule of thumb, when the EU or the US claim any bullshit about any of their geopolitical enemies, you can take it to the bank that it's in fact what they're doing, and they're diverting from it by trying to paint their enemies as offenders. There are literally a thousand examples of this, from press freedoms and human rights abuses and use of banned weapons to genocide.

Don't help them with their bullshit story of "but look, our enemies are even worse, so yeaaaah this may be a bit much, but would you rather support (insert any enemy of the day here)?!" this is the playbook. Don't play along.