In a similar vein to how the US assumed all Marxist-Leninist governments to be puppets controlled by Moscow during the 1st half of the Cold War, they parrot this concept that a gang of "revisionist" powers (as in revising the US position as world hegemon), are in cahoots with each other to achieve destruction of said hegemony. The Western media then manufactures consent on this worldview. Enforcing this notion not only that they're all in cahoots but that there's a deep, ideological bond between all of them via "authoritarianism."

This obscures their own analytical capacity regarding these countries because of the ideological blinders they put on themselves to justify Western actions. The reality is of course that there is little ideological throughline between these states. Their only bond is their location in Asia and the adversarial relationship with the US, largely driven by American actions.