State of Liberal Democracy 2023
Source: https://v-dem.net/documents/44/v-dem_dr2024_highres.pdf page 9
You can't just put a scale in without specifying what it is.
It's true, China is definitely not a liberal democracy.
Also, having China and Mexico both in the same general direction makes no sense whatsoever. I'm sure it is not the only inaccuracy in the map, this one just leapt off the screen for me.
Figure 12 of the source is depressing :(