They’ve blacklisted our companies from working with them without a “Chinese partner” — of course, that just ends up being a vessel company for state-sponsored Chinese espionage.
If you want an idea of what China has been up to, check out this recent interview with a former CIA official [1 it’s right-wing OAN, get over it].
They “somehow” managed to learn the identities of every single CIA informant in their country their country. Some of them murdered as they left their homes.