The vast majority of normies (and a fair number who think they're not normies) don't truly understand that everything that comes from China is some form of lie, deception, misdirection, propaganda, part of a scheme to undermine an opponent, theft, or political messaging. Yes, absolutely everything.

Every single 'private' Chinese company is required to have a CCP government employee/Party member in the top echelon of leadership. They have a year long course on understanding the mistakes of the Soviet Union and how to avoid them that every upper party member and military officer is required to take in order to advance. Even the various levels of graft and corruption the CCP allows is still calculated to advance the interests of the Party and China. They recognize that at least one benefit of a totalitarian system is that it can act with unified goals and force on all fronts, even ones that are seemingly totally disconnected. Even ones that may appear to have some actual positive benefits. Yes, buying and playing Black Myth Wukong assisted the CCP in their goals. They wouldn't have released it if it didn't. The fact that it was also a pretty alright game was done on purpose. Not for the purpose of making a good game to make a good game though, but for the purpose that making a good game gets more people to buy it and thus tangentially support CCP goals. If you buy something from Epic, something from Tencent, something from a company that China owns part of, you are in some small way helping the CCP and that's exactly what they intend. And they know to try to keep it small, obscure, unobtrusive, and fun in order to make it easier for you to swallow.

The videos out of China for Covid were deliberate and they had the exact effect China intended. The sad fact is that the CCP has figured out the American market/social landscape/mindset to the T and exploits it every second of every day in everything they have their hands in. The mindless seemingly totally apolitical stuff that you see on TikTok? It's not apolitical. If it's there, it's because China allows it. And if China allows it, it's because they see its use as a weapon against us even if we don't.

Chinese communism, along with Islam, are the two greatest threats facing humanity in this age. And unlike Islam, China has their hands in absolutely everything, and they know how to do it well. Even your focus on that other pesky country that tries to influence more than they ought, China encourages this and encourages you to focus on them instead of China.