Accusing countries of planting chips in server components or claiming you are inudated with immigrants when the conditions here are deplorable. Another one is intellectual property theft, the U.S. is the biggest thief based on personal experience. These are psychological tactics to trick you into believing there are not backdoors in their IT products or the conditions here are desirable.
It is an implicit denial of something you can not claim.
It reminds me of Trump dragging out women that Bill Clinton messed during the debates. Than find out he had a couple of women on the side, one that was paid off. A psychological ploy to misdirect people from looking into your business.