You can more or less extend that to Global South diaspora in the Global North

I don’t see this being any different from their past attitude, except they’re even more delusional now. They’ve basically compiled all the “China bad” disinformation tropes they’ve concocted over the years, and now they’re acting as if it’s a given they’ll outlast the PRC and they’re imagining how they’ll carve it up, when in reality this is already unlikely and, so far, only getting less probable over time.

The bar is so low I’m letting that one slide. They’re surely doing it on purpose anyway

Yup, that’s how they wrote it. It just makes it even harder to take the piece seriously