1) I have never seen any derisive claims about the Chinese people on HN - just the Chinese government/CCP.
2) What do you expect? The Chinese government is actively running concentration camps. Most people in western democracies consider many of the Chinese government's policies to be outright immoral. They have a recent history of leveraging surveillance and propaganda - both unpopular in western societies - to a much higher degree than western nations. We could go tit-for-tat listing off both sides' history of atrocities, but the ruling party in China still refuses to even recognize some of their most noteworthy atrocities. China and the western world have been engaged for decades in a back-and-forth war of economics and diplomacy on a global scale, each vying to get significant leverage over the other. Did you really expect a lot of positive coverage of a nation whose history, actions, policies are so maligned by western society? One who poses such a significant risk to western ideals?
I'm not arguing that the western world is without blame, but it seems silly to expect such impartial coverage of China from a western perspective, all things considered.