When China is clearly the lesser evil vs the US. I don’t think China’s perfect, but pretty much every critique of them is done worse in the US.
Russia I’m not as sure if there’s a meaningful distinction. Pretty oligarchical and imperialist as well but maybe they’re better just because they can’t do as much imperialism.
That's the purpose of the relentless "{China, Russia, ...} bad" propaganda.
When China is clearly the lesser evil vs the US. I don’t think China’s perfect, but pretty much every critique of them is done worse in the US.
Russia I’m not as sure if there’s a meaningful distinction. Pretty oligarchical and imperialist as well but maybe they’re better just because they can’t do as much imperialism.