Still Germany favors China, so that speaks against your idea.

This is a race to the bottom. Germans blame the US for a host of domestic problems - high cost of energy, repeated large influxes of migrants (particularly from the Middle East), the repeated threat of high tariffs with a big trading partner, escalation with Russia over Ukraine which has cut Germany off from a number of major markets for cheap raw materials - that have eclipsed their nativist disgust for East Asian businesses.

It's for the same reason Canadians hate the US, atm. Could change on a dime if the AfD takes over the German Parliament and Euro-centric white nationalism becomes an axis around which Russia, Germany, and the US can align.

I think what pisses people off is that USA is clearly abandoning their allies, friends and core values about international law

There's a lot of rhetoric around Trump's fickle ham-handedness. But Germans weren't terribly positive about Biden or Bush, either. The Germans (and the French) are trying to corral the rest of Europe into operating as their client states. That's turf the Americans staked out decades ago, and its one they're struggling to hang onto. So there's a natural tension between German and American capital that doesn't exist in the same way with China, as China's not an occupying military in the region.

Chinese imports are, if anything, easing Germany off the US market system and into an Eastern facing market with German banks and German-owned shipping companies at the center. Chinese and German business people are happy to play ball in the same way that American and Chinese business people worked together to undermine the American working class back in the 80s/90s.

It’s really really sad that USA has fallen so deeply away from decency and respect of human rights

The Americans never had any decency or respect for human rights. What they had was advanced technology and an enormous economic surplus to spread around. Now, the US is in an intellectual and economic retreat, having invested too much of their surplus into a hyper-automated AI pipe dream.

Europe has nothing to gain by wedding itself to an economy that only knows how to make advertisements and bombs (and barely remembers how to crank out the latter). So we're seeing a decoupling that was going to happen under any administration. Trump's just dumping lighter fluid on the dumpster fire.