Always remember that China is not a friend of or allied with any Western country.

Actually, China is not a friend of or allied with anyone. Well there is North Korea which basically was a vassal state of China until recently, but now fat Kim has gone nuts and China is not happy with him anymore. China has absolutely no ideological allies, there is no other country in this world that is sharing China's views of the global order or wanting it to happen, and it won't anyway. Western nations are allied to each others through various common grounds such as their democratic views of what is right or wrong, their judeo-christian cultural roots, etc... but there is no one sharing China's views of the world as it should be. There are many other dictatorships and authoritarian regimes of course, but either they do not feel related to the sino-centric cultural and ideological views of the CCP, or their goals are vastly different from that of China.

For what it is, the 'China model' of an economically successful dictatorship is far less attractive to many other authoritarian regimes than that of Singapore. China has achieved a lot only thanks to the sheer size of its population, but the average Chinese (not talking about the 0,01% elite each owning 100 flats here, but the average joe) remains extremely poor compared to the average Singaporean and, beside India (and maybe Indonesia), other countries can not solely rely on sheer numbers if they want to become economically successful dictatorships, they need quality over quantity, just like Singapore. Also the Singapore model of maintaining the leadership authority is far more attractive in that it is relatively 'international' in opposition to the very sino-centric Chinese model.