Danny Haiphong, activist, writer and political analyst, and co-author of “American Exceptionalism and American Innocence: A People's History of Fake News From the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror,” told Misfit hosts Bob Schlehuber and Jamarl Thomas that the current hostility to China isn’t a surprise ‒ it’s been building since the Obama administration’s “pivot to Asia” redirected US military forces toward the Pacific. The ruling class has been trying for years to goad China into a broader conflict, building China as a boogeyman for every ill. China now is a perfect target for the Trump administration because the Democrats will take the right wing’s Sinophobic bait and allow the GOP to outflank them on the right. History contradicts the administration’s talking points on China; whether that will be noticed by corporate media is, of course, unlikely.