It's difficult to find hard proof to support or against the claims. However there are invisible human natures lead people tend to believe one or the other. Here in HN the majority belief is China is evil. The dissidents against the belief will be downvoted. But the world is much bigger than HN. A lot of contents are just not in English.

Here's a community that contains minority beliefs but in English. I've pasted in another post. Judge by yourself they are rational people or not.

https://www.moonofalabama.org/2021/03/is-china-hacking-rando...