[SeekAndFind]

RE: They think it’s PAYBACK for the old Opium Wars of old.’

I don’t think so. If they want payback for the Opium Wars, then they should be targeting the Brits, not us.

[gaijin]

When it'$ convenient, the Chinese are just like anybody in that their narrative can shift to accomodate the reality you just pointed out:

"The West did that stuff to us, so now The West can suffer."

The American role was primarily honorable, in that the US played important roles in helping to negote treaties ending Opium wars:

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/dwe/82011.htm

However it's a fact that a few Americans were involved; the FDR's great-grandfather (not just whiskey) and the ancestors of John Kerry (who were not Americans), for example.