Because quite a lot of people in China think US is organizing an Eastern NATO, to "destabilize" the whole region. For example, the nuclear-powered marine deal with Australia, etc. Biden’s first year was much harsher on China than Russia.
In 1999, NATO bombed the Chinese embassy, killing 3, that certainly did not help.
Just look how many Asia countries joined the US-lead economic sanction/coercion. Very few.
Anti-US is a part of it, but from what I know, Chinese people do generally like Russia a lot more than most of the world. I think it’s kind of a culture and history thing, education is likely a big part. Chinese tend to favour Russia by default for many things, even if the US isn’t involved. The US involvement (perceived or not) definitely still contributes a lot to the general sentiment in this particular case, of course.
We had one of those, it was called SEATO. There's been only negative progress since on that front.
> For example, the nuclear-powered marine deal with Australia
AUKUS involved countries already in NATO-like agreements with the US (UK is in NATO, Australia in ANZUS) so it doesn't really change much in terms of security alignment.
It does, because it pissed off France ( which also has territory in the Pacific) for no good reason, and also stated that the choice of nuclear subs is due to the Chinese threat. And also it pushed the delivery date of new Australian submarines by at least a decade, probably more.
It probably doesn't help that this was a stated goal of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
No it wasn't, and TPP had no security provisions at all.
SEATO used to exist, and had the exact opposite effect. The destabilizing influence is an expansionist PRC.