Sure, but that's again due to 2035 being such a far away time. Or that x% of electricity coming from renewables being on some timeframe. The negatives effects of these plans are rarely highlighted by governments in the here and now. Likewise those effects are often not felt for a while.
Authoritarianism does not preclude communism. Likewise, their model more resembles fascism with all facets of life serving the government's ends. Which is the reason for my classification of it as Communist as fascism is a mere variant of communism. The fact that some disaffected communists disagree with Xi is quite common as Communists often disagree.
Also that the self imposed censorship in America was a response by the studios to their customers. Where was Chinese government is furthering its Communist briefs.
Handling image and other visual entities is hard. While going from text (and extracting some understanding of that text) to an image is much easier than the reverse.
Correct, when told some catastrophe is happening, most will want to do something. However, disagreeing what that "something" should be hardly sounds like congnative dissonance.