It's worth keeping in mind that PRC seems to have large astro-turf farms. You can see it here on HN: comments about PRC and Taiwan on HN get modded up or down in the usual first 1 or 2 hours of a post, then PRC gets involved and suddenly anything pro democracy, supporting Hong Kong, or even mentioning the official name of Taiwan is suddenly moderated to death.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people initially angry about 85 degrees serving the Taiwanese PM are paid to be so, before a lot of real people get in on the outrage machine.