China is a state sponsor of hacking and industrial espionage and they're also incarcerating quite a number of people based on their ethnicity, and harvesting their organs when they die in incarceration. Among other things.

Call it what you want but, even with a lot of grey in between, these things are real and material.

That said, I suggest the number of stories appearing in the press as of late might be part of a steady leak of information from US authorities as part of their strategy to put pressure on China during trade negotiations.