I am not familiar with that development, can you provide sources for me to read up on it?

Do you mean about the Gender War in South Korea in general or do you mean how it correlates heavily with support of far-right and populism? It makes sense for China, with a strong disproportion in gender ratio ever since the time they killed females at birth, to make themselves seem more favorable than the surrounding nations to women.

not because Tankies want to continue the marginalisation of women.

They had a word for people who cooperated with the Nazis. They called them Nazis.