>>507112565 (OP)Because China threatens American economic hegemony in the way Japan used to threaten it in the 70s and 80s until Japan was forced to sign Plaza Accord.
America can't force China to sign a deal like that, so it has a to use the propaganda machine or the military one.
The propaganda machine is really strong, coupled with the fact that China is a communist one party system, it's all perfect to create a narrative against evil China
You need to understand that China 40 years ago was literally farmland, it was an extremely poor country. In the span of decades the CCP lifted millions of people out of extreme poverty and transformed China from farmland into a semiconductor competitio, also probing a centralized government is a vastly superior form of capitalism.
Also because the CCP tricked the West, they wanted to use China as a cheap manufacturing place and nothing more, when it was not convenient they would just dump it and move elsewhere.
CCP saw this as an opportunity and invested heavily into their supply chain, their education, their infrastructure, everything to make them a prosperous nation and leap frog their nation as much as possible, that includes also stealing technology. Now China has the biggest supplies chains in the world, the West can't even uncouple, and China is now even doing semiconductors despite trying to ban them from evertything.
Very few people understand that what China and the CCP did was unprecedented in human history, they did what the West took 250 years in the span of 40 and their pace up to this day is still insane