For the last two decades America has been seen as a greater threat to democracy than either China or Russia.
The 2021 Democracy Perception Index, for example, found that 44% of people globally believed the US was a threat to democracy in their country. China reached 38%, and Russia reached 28%.
https://latana.com/democracy-perception-index-report-2021/
... I feel like that would have been worth pointing out, perhaps under their "context" section, or in their "big picture" blurb.
