Even moreso because the president and china are in bed together, despite using each other as foils domestically. US corporations are over their heads investing in China on 99 year leases, factories they built with western capital, and brought over western machines and technology, to take advantage of low wages and environmental laws, and sell out the unions and higher wages here.

As such China has a veritable veto on the US, they could take that massive investment in whole or in part, and the US president is Wall Street's bitch as much as any before him. The Chinese are known for pursuing their expatriates that have been critical of the country too, so the us administration would be perhaps more likely to falsely accuse an expatriate on the outs with their regime than otherwise, as they are just using each other for domestic politics while inextricably linked economically.