You're giving them too much credit. I'll bet that either "termites" were put into the pistachios five minutes before a press conference or photo op, or that there were never any termites at all, i.e., the whole story is simply propaganda.
Could be, and you are probably right, but I grew up on a farm and critters getting into the harvest stores isn't rare at all.
Doesn't matter to me one iota, though. I quit buying Chinese crap a long, long time ago. It was May of 1996 at a job site in Nicaragua when a cheap Chinese crescent wrench jammed at the least opportune moment that put me over the top with the Chinese and the look-a-like crap they sell.
If it says "Made in China" on it I don't buy it. Period. Unfortunately, I'm in a very, very small minority.....