An interesting stat I saw is that they spend, as a percentage of GDP, about as much on their internal looking police state as the US does on their military…
No, the meme claim is PRC spends roughly the same on domestic security as military (sub 2%). Which relative to GDP is about how much US spends on policing and homeland security without considerations of special budgets. US and PRC has comparable police state expenditures, US just also spends vastly more on military.