The American media has hurled a great number of insulting labels to China: bad, dangerous, undemocratic, dictatorial, evil, copycat and thief of western technologies, threat to peace and democracy to the world, and on and on. As a Chinese American, this makes me angry and sick to the stomach. Sure the insults come and go both ways across the Pacific, but I want to focus on America here.

First lets be clear. The sections of America, ie, politicians left and right and the military-industrial complex, at the center of the anti-China hype, are doing this out of selfish interests. The quickest and easiest way for politicians to gather votes seems to be the anti-foreign, populist route, as Trump proved in 2016 and again 2020.

As for the US military-industrial complex''s motive in this, do we even need a discussion other than pointing out the obvious: without an "enemy," as the Russians were during the Cold War and the Muslims were (and still are) during the "war on terror," how far would the MIC fall down the American power ladder?

Lets also not forget the racists in the US who are calling for wars to destroy China. What else do you call those who are stating, implicitly or otherwise, that not only is the Chinese nation bad and evil, so are the Chinese people — a group of "inferior" yellow men who dare to challenge the supremacy of the white men?

And also the ideologues, those who cannot utter the word "China" without following up with "commies." Their mindset has not expanded since the end of the Cold War. They obviously don''t realize calling the vast majority of Chinese today real communists is about as accurate and stupid as calling the vast majority of Americans real Christians.

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