You have a great point. If an agent of the Trump administration wanted to "plant" anonymous-sourced stories to justify a trade war with China, this is exactly

You have a great point. If an agent of the Trump administration wanted to "plant" anonymous-sourced stories to justify a trade war with China, this is exactly the type of story they would plant. And if we don't believe it could happen, all we have to do is remember back to 2003 when the entire Bush administration used fabricated evidence (yellow-cake uranium anyone?) to justify a pre-emptive strike against Iraq, who never attacked us.