Welcome to FR and thanks for your input.
But the CCP does not get a free hand.
Siding with the military junta is siding with the CCP, as this article makes plain. As I said, too many people don’t know which end is up.
(When the coup hit I assumed it was because the strong anti-military election results meant they felt threatened; the military will never willingly give up power because of the war crime trials that are sure to come if they lose the control they effectively retained even during the “democratic” period of recent years. My boss said from the start he thought the coup was mostly due to Chinese CCP influence. More and more evidence has come in since then to indicate he’s probably right.)