Now that you mention it, aren't elephants highly revered in India? There are probably a lot of conflicted feelings about the Fithp there now, not to mention how regular elephants would be treated there.
I always wondered what edgy and subversive memes are like ITL. For example you'd have a Instagram of a dying elephant with fallout music following the nuclear initiations.
Well I seemed to have missed an interesting Convo about Liu's politics but here is a long read about a technocratic elitist Far-Right trend in China via The Wandering Earth.