I couldn't get through the whole thing, but this part made me lol.

More recently, the paper deferred to Beijing’s narrative on topics including last year’s “blank paper” protests against covid-19 lockdowns and CCP rule, as well as in coverage of the Chinese surveillance balloon shot down by the United States in February, in which stories routinely implied that the American reaction was irrational and a symptom of decline.

The "Chinese surveillance balloon" was nothing more than a hobbyist weather balloon, but let's just skip over that because it doesn't fit the narrative being presented here.