Hoo boy, you should try watching Australian television for your fix of that. Ozzy political and spy dramas have become my guilty pleasure as they're all about the evil Chinese secretly controlling Blairites in the government or merking attractive young tech types working on Five Eyes surveillance. All of which I unironically stan China for.

As for American media stuff I honestly think they don't use China as soon villain as much simply because it's big and complicated and you can't expect the writers or viewers to actually know or learn anything. So they just rehashed the 80s again.