It’s not really a trick. If you’re an exporting country and you sell a lot to the US, you’re going to end up with a lot of Dollars. Either that or you’re doing something very wrong.
In any case, China hasn’t been significantly manipulating its currency at least for the last decade. Such charges had some validity in the early 2000s, but that’s old news. Since then China has largely diversified its currency holdings and it’s not really an issue, see link below, but there are stil votes in China bashing.
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2171799...
The article below from 2 years ago on this also sheds some useful light. At the time the dollar had recently rapidly appreciated against most other currencies, but the Yuan was at that point fairly strong and then stayed stable rejecting an opportunity to depreciate along with everyone else. In hindsight the articles analysis has proved to be remarkably prescient. The European banks accumulation of Yuan is testament to the increasing credibility of the Yuan, as it predicted.
https://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/2164420...