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Oh and in case anyone thinks Freedom House is some impartial org that just happens to also rate Germany highly, take a gander at what they give China:
https://freedomhouse.org/country/scores
A 9 out of 100
There's also this:
https://freedomhouse.org/effects-us-foreign-aid-freeze-freedom-house
This makes perfect sense really if you see it as a banker freedom scale.
Lol good point.
Good old fashion TLDR right there <3
Misread that as 9 out of 10 for a second and was pleasantly surprised. Wondered if they were pandering to the increasingly vocal pro-China sentiment before taking a second look.
Whoops. So yeah, to expand on it, if you skim the last link I posted, you can see they're basically one of those USAID orgs (now in trouble because of USAID funding cuts) that helps with US soft power propaganda. So naturally, AES states tend to have a very low score and liberal capitalist governments tend to have a high one.