There's an ongoing PR push to paint anything from China as unsecure, cheap or untrustworthy. Now I see regular pieces on Bloomberg or popular sites like theVerge, and all those pieces have no substantial facts in them. I know reporters are hungry for stories, and they would eat up a semi-prepared file with all the "facts" easily laid out for them.

This is not new. There was something very similar in the late 80s and 90s, with everyone saying that Japan was going to take over, that they copy everything by sending teams in North America to take pictures of everything.