Well described. And the tropes are easily reusable as situations change. For example decades prior to China it was Japan that produced mass quantities of products for the USA market, and the equation then was "Japan = cheap labor + imitation (and low quality) products." Once Japanese manufacturing quality became most of the best on the planet that trope wouldn't stick, but it was easy to redirect it to China (and, Japan was not an existential threat to the USA after WWII so it wasn't needed for that reason anyhow).

A big irony is that these tropes expose all of the USA's biggest insecurities and hypocrisies.

We don't mass-produce much of anything of quality any more. Our coming generations are on industrial-world average poorly educated and our educational system is flailing. White USA citizens are most of the biggest (corporate and government) criminals on the planet, as well as responsible for starting use of hyper-sexualization for marketing purposes. We can't provide our citizens near as good an average quality of life as most of Europe, even though we are supposedly wealthier and more powerful. And the USA is easily the biggest terrorist and organized-crime nation on the planet.