As time goes on, China will appear less authoritarian, and more desirable to people with a certain (warped one I won't name) ideology, as it continues towards its logical conclusion.

China's one child policy now seems "reasonable"

Their mass surveillance is almost desired now, with our new "Ministry of Truth"

Jail time for speaking out against the government -- something I saw plenty of people vouching for when dissenting views about the pandemic were offered up.

Re-education camps for speaking out against teaching certain ideologies and concepts to young children are almost implicitly implied.

There's more, but it's clear this is where we are headed. The slippery slope isn't a fallacy, and 1984 was a prediction.