For my understanding: Aren't Tankies also the ones praising China which is the most major reason why the fascist kremlin regime can wage on with the war against Ukraine? If China and its government really wanted to support peace, they would uphold sanctions as long as Russia attacks Ukraine and has troops in Ukraine, right? This would have also brought in India (maybe a bit forcefully), to also comply with sanctions, which would have crippled Kremlins possibilities to wage war by a lot by now. Obviously and realistically that is nothing what the Chinese governments want. They want to weaken democracies as much as other non-democratic countries (like fascist countries, religious hegemonies or dictatorships etc.). Maybe its worth to not discuss about left or right (which tankies are obviously selling themself as left) but about democracy and human rights? Tankies would therefor argue about the greater good if people would not have personal human rights for "the greater good" of society (in china it's only a specific [bootlicking] minority of the ruling class?). So the other side of this spectrum would be unconditional individual freedom and rights. Bad faith arguments would want either one or the other but realistically imho, we can have good discussions and decisions, when one wins over the other. With this, i feel, even fake news have it hard to create a bad decision for people thinking about a topic and giving it some time and thoughts.