If the Western press cannot find or explain the actual reason for China doing things, they will invent one and say its either some kind of Communist ambition (which is enough in their circles to imply its wrong and bad, no need to actually break it down or actually rebut it, convenient for them) or they'll imply its some kind of unexplainable Orientalist "spooky Chinese" thing. Cold war propaganda plus hundreds of years of Sinophobia combined.
If the Western press cannot find or explain the actual reason for China doing things, they will invent one and say its either some kind of Communist ambition (which is enough in their circles to imply its wrong and bad, no need to actually break it down or actually rebut it, convenient for them) or they'll imply its some kind of unexplainable Orientalist "spooky Chinese" thing. Cold war propaganda plus hundreds of years of Sinophobia combined.