> China forces its citizens to work 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.

As someone who lived there for 5 years, this is laughable and totally untrue.

I'm guessing you heard that some tech companies have a 996 policy and inferred that the government is somehow imposing this on every single worker in China.

As someone whose only idea of China is what I see in western media and what I project onto it based on my deepest fears, it is 100% true.