Right, Agree with you completely. I like John's openness to speak out his ideas, that he does not like Chinese communists, neither do I. but if John takes trips to China and find chances to talk to the regular people there, he may change his mind. The western media are always trying to collect the bad things about China and try to create some illusions that are already more than the facts itself. The real fact is Chinese communists are not communists any more, they like capitalism more and people there are also not much different to American people. They also love freedom and like to travel and they enjoy the life with friends and family, and they even like American life style more than what has been taught in Chinese textbooks, and absolute no threat to Americans. The China society is having more and more middle-class, and they are sending their children to US to have better education, and many stay at US later as immigrants later. The Silicon Valley has lots of Chinese Americans, they are closer to regular American people rather than regular Chinese.
In the big cities, China people living standards are also rising very fast, many middle-class people now having a living standard close to American middle-class, and their apartment price is often higher than the houses in California. The educated Chinese people sent their children to learn classical music and many have been good piano or violin performers. some rich guys are buying houses in US.
For such a fast rising country and so many people, why American guys think they are threats?
I guess the fact is that US government is trying to exaggerate the threats, and also many American people start to feel surprise and then upset about the fast change of the world. I talked to an American taxi driver in Hawaii and I told him I came from China. He told me he thinks China is a big threat to US, and China holds a lot of debts of US, and even his sons and grandsons won't be able to pay the huge debts, and China has nuclear weapons, what if China allies with Russia and break the peace of world ? also China is ruled by such a government that many people live a miserable life...
I agree many China people have biases on US, which is because of the education and China local media; but it's same in US, many people have biases on China, also because of the same reason. This is funny.
The real fact is , most China people love US , and the American people, they like to be friends but not enemies. It's absolutely ridiculous to say more about China threats. The threats are created by both sides' media, in order to let people at both sides to transfer their attention, to hate the other side instead. so in China, people were told "all faults are because of US"; and in US, people could be told "all faults are because of China". if you read the book of "1984" (George Orwell) , you may know what I mean.
Also China government is seeing US as strategic partner and leader of the world, so I don't believe the regular China exports electronics to be used as spy tools, this is very stupid idea, and ridiculous. US has the best technology in the world, anyone and any country who want to spy on US, is unlikely to work and easy to be discovered and defeated. Hikvision and other companies in China are trying to do business and make a fast grow of their revenue, do they want to take such risks? I can say it's 100% impossible. Hikvision's competitors in US and other countries may feel this is a good chance to use this rumor to impact Hik's business. this is the most likely reason.
In the end, I would like to say something true but not easy to be realized yet:
Which country has more English speakers now? China or US?
The answer is China, although they are not native speaker, so their English is not as good as American speakers.