Osama bin Laden filled a gap left by the Soviet Union. Who's the baddie now?

China is the obvious option, although modern Russia is sufficiently non-aligned to be viewed suspiciously (although it's not possible to form a simple narrative as to why we should hate Russia anymore). China represents everything that we seem to be moving towards, but under a banner that can be summed up as the evil enemy. My concern is that in a quest to limit Chinese control (The Chinese are the reason our economy is the way it is, the Chinese are buying up all the rare earth metals to sell to us at inflated prices etc.) we become the difference between us and the 'enemy' (in terms of freedoms, surveillance and individual rights) narrows, leaving us in a bizarre situation where we fight to sustain the very thing we become.