"Authoritarian" is their favourite word. Completely, utterly meaningless. But everyone "knows it when they see it" so it makes for the perfect shibboleth to separate them from those evil authoritarian tankies.
The only good thing about the word is if someone tries to use it in an argument unironically, I know they have 0 idea of what they are talking about. A shame that is something people in the west seem to be proud of that though.