> Achieving that would probably put it pretty far right on a global scale.

Would it? Compared to Europe, sure. But I always had the impression that most of Asia skewed rather further right?

I think that just trying to project strict left-right dichotomy as contemporary American politics produced on other countries is already bad start. It is not something universal, it is being exported to some extend, but still. The aliances elsewhere and political splits dont copy America.

I do agree with that.

I imagine that conservatism across Asia looks very different than conservatism in the US; i.e., questions of trust in government, whether COVID is serious, or whether people should own guns.

The American right is insofar an outlier as it is deeply distrustful of the state. Many conservative movements across the world tend to be more statist than their leftist compatriots. In general, right-left is a pretty insufficient category for classifying politics, something like milieu theory

Europe is not that left leaning. While it has common agreement on certain topics that in the US are still a big left-right debate on other Europe is way more radical than US. For example hating a certain minority (eg. gypsies) is pretty much mainstream in Europe and has little blowback. There's far right parties with quite a strong base in pretty much every European country.

> There's far right parties with quite a strong base in pretty much every European country

This is more a function of more proportional representation systems than anything else. Both the US and UK have first past the post, and in both of those countries both the more extreme left and right politicians are part of the major parties, whereas this happens less in more PR based systems.