because Anglo-American anti-racism isn't *just* "let's oppose racial prejudice" any more. If it were, it would be easy to say the reasonable thing, "white-on-Chinese racism and Han-Chinese-on-black racism are both bad."
New markets. New industrial bases. New funders. All of whom are getting more sophisticated as partners every day, but who are still (at least, were) easy for a Westerner to impress.
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(I'm into perfume, and you can see new international markets in the perfume trends. Back in 2005-2010, the world's nouveau riche were the Arab gulf states, so you saw a lot of pseudo-oudh perfumes. Now it's the Chinese, and so you see a lot of pale watery perfumes.)
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nationalists have kind of consolidated around anti-China because a.) trade with China really did cause US manufacturing job loss, it seems; b.) the CCP really does do some bad things; c.) it's hard to see China as a pitiful victim when they're obviously an ambitious nation
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