How similar do you think Chinese conservatives are from American conservatives? My general impression is that other developed country conservatives (aside from Australia) are much more sinister boujee and evil-ish. Conservatives in Africa and Asia are much more in like a factionalist 50s sort of ethnic favoritism and corruption + organized crime and political separatist groups. For the last two, see Haiti, Colombia, Myanmar, India, the DRC, Indonesia, Mexico. I dunno what conservatism is in South Africa for instance and than megachurches and sexism.
"Conservatives" is an odd word to apply to these sorts of nominally-commie statist-party hardliners (see also: Soviet "conservatives" under Gorbachev), even though it
feels accurate. I think a more apt term in this case is simply "nationalists"; the gender panic here is at heart about "Chineseness" rather than about religion or morality like it would be in the US.
