It would be naive to think HN is not immune to influence operations. The people singing praises to China are not necessarily people.
China's living rent free in your collective mind for 50+ years while they just chug along and slowly catches and surpasses you in most aspects.
But also some are just real people from HN that are the worst kind of dumb : uneducated but smart, so they think their opinion is valid.
This is where the "history at schoolis useless" people show their true color.