this meme started with Trump-hating Anthony Zurcher/BBC. I posted this yesterday:
24 Apr: BBC: Coronavirus pandemic exposes rather than heals America’s divisions
by Anthony Zurcher, North America reporter
A battle between the Biden and Trump campaigns is also brewing over which candidate has the cosiest relationship with China - which many Americans view as responsible for the global spread of the virus that originated in Wuhan.
In competing advertisements, both sides suggested their opponent is too soft to stand up to the Chinese government...
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52405741
Oct 2019:
Twitter: Seth Abramson, Newsweek
re-tweets Anthony Zurcher, BBC senior North America reporter
Trump, talking about Chinese trade negotiations, less than a minute before he called on China to investigate the Bidens: “If they don’t do what we want, we have tremendous power.”
3 Oct 2019
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1179779325245177856