Jerry Brown Is Angry: Why Is America Barreling into a Cold War with China?

>“There’s not much dissent, the chorus on China is overwhelming,” he says.

The problem is that the mass media has been overwhelmingly anti-China. Politicians have no choice but to just go along with the mindlessly "China bad" narrative. Any politician who isn't firmly on the side of "China bad" will be labeled as pro-CCP, pro-communism, etc.

This is true at a much lower level too. For example, even on HN, where people generally are more knowledgeable and often trained in the sciences and history, if you're not anti-China, you might easily get called out as a CCP propagandist. There is no dialogue that can be had. People have made up their mind through endless mass media anti-China propaganda.