I think we should try to be more careful, not to automatically assume that everyone who is asking questions here about China/Ukraine etc. is always arguing in bad faith. I’ve seen multiple people who were genuinely trying to ask something here and the only response they got was mockery.
I do understand that a lot of times people who come here are trying to troll or just be annoying, but we still should try to engage in them in good faith as long as there is no reason not to do so. Not everyone who isn’t from Lemmygrad is someone hostile to our ideology, and we should try to be kinder to them.
One thing I have seen with this situation, is if someone is asking genuine questions, but gets some aggression (but also answers) they will act with confusion and frustration, not the “liberal smugness” what trolls have.
Explaining to these people that we do get a lot of trolls and people in bad faith asking similar questions is usually enough to help them understand. Someone who is actively against us from the start won’t change their mind regardless of evidence, and someone who is curious isn’t going to just automatically go away because some people were rude. The key there is some people though. If they only receive hostile responses, they will leave.