Some quarters in Asean, especially the pro American Asean states and English educated opinion influencers, especially those with ethnic Chinese roots, are still propagating the view that they trusted the Americans more than China. They still believe that American is for peace, to protect peace, and China's effort for peace is not genuine...and Americans' war in Europe, the Middle East and Africa are for peace, or fiction, did not happen.
This kind of silly colonial views in favour of the white men, their former colonial masters, cannot be easily erased after centuries of western programming of their minds with English literatures they read in schools, in the media and their occupation that were facilitated by their ability to speak and write in English to an English speaking world. They benefitted from being in an English speaking environment and an English speaking audience and an English speaking echoing chamber that bounced around their Pinkerton tinted lenses and mindsets.
For the last few hundred years, the history of the world, the massacres, genocides, invasions, wars and occupation of foreign lands, crimes against humanity, were all conducted and committed by the white men. They invaded and conquered the whole world, and China was one of their victims, broken up, impoverished and bankrupted and oppressed. This did not change their thinking about the West as the invaders and oppressors of the world, of the coloured people, as their minds and thinkings were also colonised by the western literature that painted colonialism and imperialism as a glorious conquest for the white men. No crimes, no violation of national sovereignty, no violation of human rights, no wrong.
Today, the recent history is also full of invasions and wars committed by the white men against the coloured people and their former colonies. The wars in Europe, in the Middle East, in Africa and Latin America, and the impending wars that the white men are agitating and wanting to start in Asia, are all facts and evidence of the aggressive and savage nature of the white men.
China was not involved in any wars and aggression against any country. The territorial claims in the South China Sea were started and supported by the Americans to claim territories long claimed by China under the finder's keepers principle. China has all the historical rights to these uninhabited islands and reefs that they reclaimed from the sea. The countries challenging China's claims did not exist till after WW2. Their claims were supported by the western fake and mischievous narratives and based on a new Law of the Sea that they tried to apply retrospectively against China. By agitating and inciting these claims against China, the West was able to divert the attention and memories from their illegal occupation of native lands like USA and Canada, Australia, New Zealand and many lands and islands in the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans
And the English educated Anglophiles simply and conveniently accepted the American and western narratives as the version of truth and repeatedly echo this position to demonise China in support of the fake and mischievous western narratives.
How the Americans and the West deviously divided the Middle East for centuries, sowing discord and unending wars among these states were totally ignored by the English educated Anglosphiles. China stepped in to patch up the centuries of rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran, curtailing the white men's divide and rule was simply brushed aside by these silly English educated Anglophiles as unimportant and to serve China's interest. The great contribution by China in maintaining peace among the Arab and Muslim states vis a vis the continuous provocations, intrigues by the West to keep the Arab and Muslim countries fighting endlessly could not be noticed or appreciated by the unthinking English educated Anglophiles.
To this unthinking, but thinking that they are thinking, English educated Anglophiles, the white men are the white gods and it is their rights and privilege to conduct wars, commit war crimes, genocides with impunity. China on the other hand did not commit any of such hideous crimes but still be seen as the bad guy. This state of mind is so pathetic, when the so called literate and thinking elites are unable to think clearly and continue to live with their colonised mindset and spreading lies and white men's mischievous narratives against the Asian and coloured people.
The holocaust and genocide in Gaza still cannot change their dull and thick heads as to who is the real devil. China is still their Satan without engaging in wars and war crimes against humanity. The murderers and butchers are still their gods and angels, the good guys. It is so despicable. Even some Muslims also believe the Americans and the white men are the good guys, ignoring and refusing to see what is happening in Gaza. The Palestinians are still dying in the hands of their white gods, the Americans, the Brits, the French and the Israelis, and they are still pointing the fingers at China who is not a party to the war crimes and crimes against the Arabs and Muslims. They still trust the Americans more than the Chinese, according to a suspicious and mischievous survey.
Can the silly English educated coloured people imagine what the world would be like without China standing in the way of the rogue American terrorists? Trump would make sure they crawled to Washington to kiss his ass. Perhaps they really want to do that, to kiss Trump's ass as a great privilege. None has expressed disdain or felt insulted by this rude boast of Trump.