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The tankies occasionally use the term sinophobia, it was my understanding that the term meant "bigotry by condemning China's government for being fucking evil".
At the danger of sounding like a tankie, have you looked at politics subs on reddit ir even just the average headline when China does anything at all? I've regularly seen people advocating for nuclear strikes against chinese metropolises because "If the Chinese were against their government they would have already rebelled, so they are complicit in everything their leaders do" and the articles that go like "China Has Found A Cure To Cancer; But At what cost?" (slightly exaggerated but probably something we would see if a cure to cancer really was invented in China)
While I've never seen that on reddit (I wasn't very active in global politics subs on there), I completely believe there's people saying that sort of thing. And I apologize for making a comment that kinda denies that kind of bias exists -it wasn't my intention but it definitely happened.
Lemmy is my first time encountering the term and, well, we've got a few apologists for the Chinese government around.