I dont see China as a place to be admired. Mussolini and Hitler were good at dam building too.
Liberalism has created the most successful, prosperous, and free countries in the world. Singapore may be one exception but if you look at the thirty wealthiest countries in the world they are all democracies.
That you are so aggrieved about transgenders, and I am no big fan of trends, but it doesnt really effect me, that you prefer an authoritarian dictatorship is astounding. I love my country and it is nothing without our freedoms.