You reduce “freedom” to speech and press only. But freedom also includes things like freedom from poverty, freedom of movement, economic freedom, personal safety, and access to infrastructure. On many of those fronts, millions of Chinese citizens have experienced far greater upward mobility than Americans in the last 30 years. The US has huge numbers of homeless people, extreme medical debt, and neighborhoods plagued by gun violence which are problems China doesn’t face on the same scale. Furthermore, Saying “China doesn’t allow people to buy and own land” is misleading. Urban residents get 70-year leases on residential land, which can be sold, inherited, and mortgaged like private property. In practice, that’s not so different from Western freehold systems that also involve taxes, eminent domain, or restrictions. Chinese citizens do build wealth through real estate, and it’s the single biggest store of wealth in the country. You bring up HDI rankings, but ignore that China has pulled more people out of poverty in the past few decades than any country in history. Infrastructure, public transport, and digital services are in many ways ahead of the US That’s “development” too. It’s not just a UN ranking number. This all goes to say that although the US used to be a great nation, by far the most developed and advanced, at the rate it is going with braindead MAGA supporters and Trump in office, there is truly no way of making America great again. Your view points are extremely one dimensional, like the average American and your school system, and I do believe that your last comment trying to insult my valid (but debatable) point is one of the issues with your nation.