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It's funny. I've been called a "tankie" too for stating truths about China that are uncomfortable to its critics.
It's almost as if "tankie" is a word that has no intrinsic meaning outside of "you are someone I disagree with and I need an epithet". Pretty much the same as every other political epithet this way.
So I pretty much take anybody using the term "tankie" unironically and give them as much credence as I give anybody who uses words like "woke" or "DEI" or even "sheeple" unironically. I assume they're a) ignorant cunts, and b) assholes.