Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.
They've been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren't Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it's bots or wumao. Human beings can't possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.
New conspiracy theory, Biden is an actual Marxist sleeper agent but Xi was tidying up one day and accidentally threw away the slip of paper with the activation phrase written on it, which is why Biden is indistinguishable from a conservative who hates unions.