I think building a mental model of &quot;bad,&quot; countries vs. &quot;good,&quot; countries is over simplistic and not really useful when comparing China to the United States.  The two entities are two of the largest countries in the world both by wealth, population and area.  What troubles many Chinese about the Falun Gong and American society is the instability and inherent threats that it causes to Chinese society, by way of potential destabilization of the Chinese Communist Party&#x27;s central authoritarian rule.  What troubles Americans and more pluralistic societies is that they believe that only through a pluralistic, representative society can human rights abuses be brought to the forefront and eliminated. What the thought is, while America has many problems and human rights abuses, China is likely perpetrating far more serious problems under the surface, on a regular basis, due to a fundamental, &quot;Who watches the watchers?&quot; problem inherent in a vanguard movement as opposed to a pluralistic society in which titans can hypothetically point fingers at one another as they battle for power, leveraging the common folk&#x27;s sensibilities to de-seat one another.