There's lots of unilateral neoconservative propaganda against China which now stands in the way of unilateral geopolitical agendas. It's an industrial, economic war.

China, of course, is no saint. It does appear though that some idealogues in the oligarch ciricles of the US are promoting China and its surveillance system as a doable system that could be implemented; not that America doesn't already have mass surveillance, so it might just be a perception management campaign to desensitize people.