Is that just the pavlovian response instilled in them, no ability to think or say anything else when China is mentioned?

That, and the fact that this is the only thing these ignorant pig headed libs even know about China. They are so full of their ideology and arrogant that they always feel the need to chime in on every subject, but the only thing they know on the “China subject” is Uighur genocide, Tinyman Square & Honk Honk