Exactly. Far right is sympathetic to Russia because they're white, that's it. When it comes down to China they are even more rabidly anti-Chinese (and anti-non-white in general) than libs. It is not some Russian "soft power" or genius grand strategy that swayed them and could be replicated, it is just plain tribalism and racism.
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The world is seeing a resurgence of fascism in general.
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There, fixed it for you. It’s perhaps a sign of how pernicious western propaganda is that is so easy to fall into their trap of conflating the west with the world.
They were always fascist. It's just they can no longer afford to keep up the facade. Honestly as things age, the more China is proven right in hindsight. I guess when you have 5000 years of history you kinda see what works and what is basically a meme like grunge rock, lobotomy or "democracy".
India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Thailand are just a few examples of fascist resurgence that are not western. India by itself is ~18% of humanity.
Suspect has been arrested.
I do not agree with perpetrating hate crimes against Americans, especially in China. I would like to know the deeper detail as to who the victims are and what were the motives for the attack before making any conclusions. But on the surface, it does look like a hate crime, which China will take much more seriously than the US with its own anti-Asian hate crimes.
Nevertheless, I find it ironic that the US govt, Western media, and the various other West-leaning "Asian media" like Nikkei, SCMP, and CNA reacted with such "horror" at the news that Americans in China were stabbed. But when Chinese people were assaulted, lynched, bombed, and discriminated against, they don't actually care at all. Instead, they blame the victim and their nation. American Chinese killed on the streets of San Francisco, its the CCP's fault for Covid. Chinese people getting assaulted by HK black mobs, its the CCP's fault for cracking down on HK. Chinese people getting blown up by terrorists in Pakistan, its the evil CCP's BRI fault. These people and journalists are racists, but they are so blinded by white superiority, that they can't see their own contradictions.
Tbh Indians are western in every sense of their behavior and cultural heritage, it's just that no one want to claim them because they're... India.
Australia has resources China needs, however is weak and can be easily dealt with. There is no need to go apeshit and have the whole world see it. It just does not add anything of value except being able to say "we got them good" for two weeks, and then finding your actions actually cost you more in the long term.
Australia's foreign policy isn't independent anyway so you already know what their stance is. Just manage it, get what you need at the best possible terms and focus on the head of the beast, not the tentacles.
Open defecation, consuming excrement, unnatural sex, sexual depravity, dare devil stunts on public transportation, scamming, poverty, cronyism, nepotism, gangster business policies, excessive trade protectionism, and many more. Yeah I can see those manifesting in the West these days. Perhaps Indian culture is starting to "come home" to the West.
Australia unironically has more leverage on China than US though. China could slap around the US economy back to recession because they're not that closely integrated. There's not much China can lose from US.
In contrast, Australia is one of the resource rich countries that also sell all of it to China in yuan. Meaning they partially subsidize Chinese living standards, alongside Russia, Middle East etc. China has a lot more to lose.