The medical community is now hard-wired for gender-transitioning of children as young as 5 years old with drugs, hormones and surgeries that have lifelong physical and psychological consequences and health risks.
Cheap manufactured products are not China's primary exports, but social engineering technologies are. Authoritarian regimes are eagerly adopting China's dystopian surveillance and censorship technologies, using data and manipulation to maintain their power.
Societies are undergoing subtle yet massive changes because constant surveillance causes people to modify their behavior. You might nix certain activities that are thought to result in negative outcomes, and adopt new practices that are seen as positive. This is the wretched iron fist of Technocracy's 'science of social engineering'.