Thoughts are free, who can guess them? They fly by like nocturnal shadows. No person can know them, no hunter can shoot them with powder and lead: Thoughts are free!
With other words: think what you want (but be careful to speak it out).
All of this is very intentional from China. It is a form of cultural war where China is fighting aggressively against the core western values using his new found economic power. Staying passive is chosing to lose.
Do not underestimate the reach and abilities of a whole nation that want to shutdown critical voices. This was possible 80 years ago within a nation and it is possible on a global scale today. Nothing can be gained by just posting critic online. It will be stored forever, personally linked to the author and should it not be liked by some nations or corporations, the author has to bear the consequences. Possibly forever. We did build the Internet with good intentions, now we have a global harassment and suppression machine. We have to live with that reality now even if we dislike it. We can’t undo it.
Things that are “hold my beer..” style only bring pain.