Who has what incentive here? The US has an incentive to damage China'a reputation, but not so much if it takes down Apple and Amazon with it. Apple and Amazon h

Who has what incentive here? The US has an incentive to damage China'a reputation, but not so much if it takes down Apple and Amazon with it. Apple and Amazon have an incentive to limit or hide information suggesting they're leaking data - is that enough smoke? Otherwise, if Bloomberg have been misled by a concocted story, who has the ability to generate enough false sources/etc to engineer it? Seems like the scale puts it beyond a solid PR effort from a competitor?