It's been the greatest desire of westerners to control China.
The problem with the West- particularly the elites of the West- is that because they've had a taste of colonising China during the Century of Humiliation and indeed built their entire industrial economy off exploiting China (Harvard et al was funded with opium money), that they never got over it and pine for being able to return to a time when they could exploit China for her wealth, riches and people. In a way this desire to dominate China alleviates their fear of themselves being dominated by China.
Turning China into another Japan or Taiwan has been the driving aim of the anglo american elite since Kissinger and Nixon's detente with China. If China surrendered to the Anglo American power structure, we could well enter another dark age since the anglo american power structure are still led by greedy imbeciles who lack foresight, and are unable to even use the tools that they seek to steal from Chinese civilisation.
Take for eg the fact that they got all of Japan's tech for free after the Plaza accords; what did they do with it? It made them a lot of money after the dotcom bubble and the decades of Asia subsidising american spending via Treasury purchases, and probably bought them tech dominance for another 30 years but even then, american innovation went out the window as we saw with the US unable to compete with Huawei's 5G and quantum tech- because american intelligence is simply unable to keep up with Chinese intelligence.
And the Anglo american power structure knows it, hence why there's a lot of talk about "nuking China" and mass propaganda to dehumanise Chinese people.
