Why should it surprise you?
China is the one who has been behind this all along. Why do you think the Enemedia is so quiet about what China is doing? Why do you think Apple/Goolag/Faceberg/Twatter all kow tow to China? Zuckerberg went all in and married a Chinese woman.
The answer is simple. The Cabal wants to rule the world using the Chinese model. Everyone except the elite is a slave, prison and death for "wrongthink". Death for billions and no one can stop them.
Putin is not playing along with the cabal. He reinstated the churches, supporting traditional Russian values, kicked George Soros out of the Ukraine, doesn't put up with Muslim bullshit (the Cabal's proxy army-it has been for almost a century), etc.It isn't "western style democracy" but right now "western style democracy" is nothing more than globalist totalitarianism on a scale Orwell couldn't imagine.