Original sentence: Although this development mirrors other nation's actions during a similar period of modernization (like the Soviet Union, Japan, and the US, France and the UK), the fact that an authoritarian Chinese government appears to be encouraging its appearance as a way to offset criticism towards itself is disturbing to many throughout the world, and is itself a source of increased resentment towards the People's Republic of China.China has figured in the Western imagination for more than two millennia in a variety of ways: positively, as an inventive, well-organized alternative civilization and negatively as a monolithic and repressive society.Furthermore, there is unease worldwide with the world's most populous country being controlled by an unelected single-party leadership.Many observers around the world increased their dislike of Chinese political machinations after watching the suppression of protesters during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 in Beijing and throughout much of urban China.Rather than being "afraid" of developments on the mainland or of the Chinese as a racial entity, however, it was said that many observers simply have serious, non-racially motivated criticisms towards modern Chinese culture, customs and methods of government
Edited sentence: Although this development mirrors other nation's actions during a similar period of modernization (like the Soviet Union, Japan, and the US, France and the UK), the fact that an authoritarian Chinese regime appears to be encouraging its appearance as a way to offset criticism towards itself is disturbing to many throughout the world, and is itself a source of increased resentment towards the People's Republic of China.China has figured in the Western imagination for more than two millennia in a variety of ways: positively, as an inventive, well-organized alternative civilization and negatively as a monolithic, socially and morally backwards and repressive society.Furthermore, there is unease worldwide with the largest population center on earth being dictatorially controlled by an unelected and repressive single-party leadership.Many observers around the world increased their dislike of Chinese political machinations after watching the brutal suppression of peaceful protesters during the June 4, 1989 crackdown in Beijing and throughout much of urban China.Rather than being "afraid" of developments on the mainland or of the Chinese as a racial entity, however, many non-Chinese (and Chinese) observers simply have serious, non-racially motivated criticisms towards modern Chinese culture, customs and methods of government