America journalist (and America as a whole to be honest) wants Sinophobia to be cool again so bad. In the same way American media are overtly okay with Russophobia (which is of course not okay cause -phobia isn't cool), I think the media wants to be a Sinophobia to okay too.

It's fucked up to think we think ourselves so great that anytime anyone else does anything they are either cheating or doing some sort of evil [insert some vile trope about some other group here].