"The article is not about what is ethical about the actions of any entity in the world hypothetically"

It is, actually. It smears the chosen enemy and elevates the domestic aggressor by omission. No word of the rogue state inside the US spying on everyone for its own benefit. But 'concerns' about China.

It wasn't Russia or China who privatized everything in the US in the last 40 years, pushed the people into poverty for stock market and even dumped on them ~$4 trillion war debt for the privilege of murdering millions abroad. It definitely wasn't either of them who kidnapped, jailed and tortured American citizens in CIA rendition flights.