Do You Think That Our Collective Feeling About China Happened Because We Read the News?

Do you think our collective feeling about China happened because we read the news and formed our own opinions independently? There's only one real answer to that question. You can't know. It's unknowable. And it's actually a very good question. When you first hear it, you're like, come on. Why would that even happen? Well, who would be doing that? But then you think about it for like a second in the context of everything we've learned in the last two years. And you said to yourself, "Oh, actually, that's the only way it does work"