The media person here is looking, not for understanding or even facts, but headlines.
Sift everything you hear in the news now, especially regarding any people or nation who are running contrary to the Western global powers.
“Thus, it should be understood that when pro-US figures use the term, 'rules-based international order,' they are not referring to anything analogous to the rule of law. Quite the opposite, they are using Orwellian language to describe a system in which essentially no rules can be established and/or observed, given that the dominant state has the prerogative to violate and/or rewrite “rules” at its whim.” Aaron Good, American Exception