> They manipulate their currency. They interfere with foreign owned businesses. They steal IP. They're seeking to upset the global money standard. They entrap other nations with predatory loans for infrastructure. They trade with our other enemies and flaunt sanctions, etc, etc.
Aside from the money standard and zero COVID bits, every part of this is true of the US. This conflict just boils down to “the hegemon doesn’t want any competition.”
> they undercut western manufacturing and all our manufacturing went there.
America’s oligarchs did this to the country. China just leveraged their short-sightedness and greed to the country’s own advantage.