When I see and hear the Red Scare that MSM likes to make of China (and before China, the USSR), I now think of the great distraction that Americans are made to see. 

The great distraction is that of slavery. American capitalists often call out "slavery" and point to China. They will not tell you that Karl Marx was an abolitionist and that he sought to intervene in the American Civil War:

As Robin Blackburn has observed in An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln, Marx, at the time of the U.S. Civil War, “was focused on destroying true chattel slavery, which he knew to be a critical component of the reigning capitalist order.” He viewed the conflict between the North and South at the time of the U.S. Civil War as a contest between “two species of capitalism—one allowing slavery the other not.”76 Marx played a key role in organizing the English working-class movement against the British government’s moves to intervene on the side of the Confederacy in the U.S. Civil War. His participation in the antislavery struggle was thus fully integrated with his overall critique of political economy. The extensive economic manuscripts that were to form the basis of Capital were written during the years of the U.S. Civil War. Marx commenced the drafting of the manuscript for volume one of Capital just as the slavocracy was defeated.77I am of the opinion now, that capitalism requires slavery to function.