I agree with your first two paragraphs but I don't necessarily agree with the rest.
The CCP is clearly effective at letting you see what it wants you to see because no matter what you think of our media, even the most biased right-wing or left-wing sources are more open than theirs and criticism of everything that goes wrong in the US flows freely. We're more like a reality TV drama that frequently airs our dirty laundry. Taking news from China at face value is like looking at someone's Instagram feed, you are only seeing the highlights. Some Chinese people got to go movie theaters and eat at restaurants in contemporary urban middle class sense. Hundreds of millions in the interior cannot afford the aforementioned middle class lifestyle.
You can see the large gap in per capita GDP for provinces here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Chinese_administrative...

Also, if you were under the impression that they locked down once and beat the virus, then you'd be surprised to find out that they've had to do multiple recurring region-wide lock-downs all throughout, even up until now.

August 2021 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/02/millions-under...

June 2021 https://www.scmp.com/coronavirus/greater-china/article/31380...

January 2021 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/13/world/asia/china-covid-lo...

I don't know what state youre from; I went through lockdowns too but I've gone to restaurants and movie theaters and traveled to other places freely as well. If you didn't, that's on your state, just like there were times that people in Shanghai had more freedom than people in Shenzhen, and vice versa.

Your third paragraph is hard to comment on briefly and partly subjective, I can't comment on 1/6 because it's still an ongoing investigation with the FBI reporting a lack of evidence that it was some centrally coordinated plot. Sometimes riots get out of hand, we should be thankful that unlike a certain riot in 1989 we didn't roll out the tanks and run them over. Instead we arrested them all and they are going through due process. The foreign engagement failures of Afghanistan and Iraq don't exist in a vacuum. We've been in Germany, South Korea, and Japanese for decades and those are going quite well - you win some you lose some. When South Koreans went under repressive rule by Park Jung Hee, you could've said our nation building failed, but we held on and now it's a thriving country that exports its culture worldwide. As for social mobility, I'm an ethnic minority and no matter how bad you think social mobility is, and it's not easy, you do not have better chances anywhere other than the US and Europe. Make of that what you will, I've experienced it. First in my family to go to college, got a job in tech and all that. Believe me if you want. I appreciate the social mobility here and acknowledge that my family couldn't have done it without the civil rights movement of decades prior. I also understand why Americans look down on their own history, but the thing is contemporary Chinese folks do not look down on theirs. They are proud, they want their country to be the best, they want to win. More power to them, but the "Chinese Dream" is only for them. You can go there as a student, be an expat, but it's almost impossible to become a citizen. They are not a nation of immigrants. At best you can be a permanent resident, preferably if you have a western passport. Africans there are not treated as kindly:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3079497/us-w...

https://news.yahoo.com/no-blacks-evicted-harassed-targeted-1...

They didn't get the support of allies mass protesting police brutality in every city like Americans did.
People like me don't appreciate the self-defeating sentiment that China's ascension is inevitable and well deserved because of our bad history. I don't mean to detract from your points too much. We do need better education, better healthcare, a more prudent foreign policy and all that. I'm just adding more context and my input that all hope is not lost and that western values are inferior to Chinese ones. All hope is not lost. We don't want to get to the point where we say "welp that settles it the only way to improve our standard of living is to become repressive authoritarian regimes too"