Puppets or not, the CCP is a foreign entity that is/was influencing US govt. officials, and corporations to shape a narrative beneficial towards the communist regime.
And, US politicians, and corporate entities knowingly gave comfort and aid to that foreign power to help achieve those propaganda goals, leading to the harm, and deaths of American citizens.
That's called treason, in the literal, legal sense of the word.
Puppets or not, the CCP is a foreign entity that is/was influencing US govt. officials, and corporations to shape a narrative beneficial towards the communist regime.
And, US politicians, and corporate entities knowingly gave comfort and aid to that foreign power to help achieve those propaganda goals, leading to the harm, and deaths of American citizens.
That's called treason, in the literal, legal sense of the word.