One feature that is overlooked from the Chinese response is the rapid contact tracing on a community level through the communist party's Neighborhood Committee. This could be duplicated in the west without authoritarianism through more effective community engagement. For more information, read this article by a New Yorker journalist:
Yep. When I was in China in January, a person from the neighborhood committee called us and asked us whether we've been in contact with anyone from Wuhan, or whether we have any symptoms. Very simple, but contributes to tracing. In contrast, when I went back to the Netherlands 2 weeks later, nobody asked me anything. Even after I called the public health service, they told me I couldn't even voluntarily get tested even if I wanted to. Two months later, COVID-19 cases in the Netherlands surged sky-high.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/17/how-china-cont...