If you don't think Trump would do this, you probably haven't realized how bad things are with China right now.

UK/US supported the rioting in Hong Kong. They wanted a deal to guarantee more autonomy for Hong Kong, because it's how/where they control/try to control China from. They've been losing control of China for years now. But the British controlled China going way back and they created the Chinese Communists as a way to prevent the USA from controlling China through the ties the US made with the Chinese Nationalists while fighting Japan in WWII.

So instead of gaining more autonomy for Hong Kong, they failed so bad that China released an economic bioweapon and passed a national security law that gives them basically full legal control over Hong Kong. China is also backing the rioting in the US in retaliation. It has zero chance of creating a real revolution though and they've really blown their wad on that one, there's no coming back from it.

Another reason Hong Kong is important is because Hong Kong banks are where a lot of money in the international illegal drug trade has always been banked. China's new security law means they just took it all. Total gangster move.

A 50 billion dollar company you say? The world wide illegal drug trade is worth about 1% of total world wide trade every year. It was estimated at being worth $350 billion a year in the early 2000s. Their new national security law surely gave them control over more than a trillion dollars in stashed drug money.

It may or may not actually be happening yet but sometimes false alarm stories like this come out on purpose to test reactions and hint that they are not bluffing and could really do it, etc.

Stick a fork in China, they're done. This is a major break in relations. First "globalization" became just China then it failed completely. The Clintons and all their UK buddies failed at their life long project, it's over.