He has some positive things to say about Americans. For example they are less superstitious and more pragmatic.

There’s a bit about micromanaging and planning the whole of society is an enormous task and letting the market paint in broad strokes so that the government can firmly do the whole regulation part and not the resource allocation. I suspect this is what these commentators latched onto. The same ones who were overjoyed “Xi’s China” was “privatizing” state enterprises by exposing them to greater market pressures. This was offset by larger membership of party members among leadership of the “privatized” state enterprises and 2 weeks later said commentators all complained about “Xi’s Maoist China” so go figure.