The US Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission have been aiding and abetting China's protectionism. Both agencies have spent substantial resources to promote a U.S.-style antitrust regime in China. The article you cited references this. Last month, documents I received from the DOJ under a FOIA request show how DOJ lawyers are actually making line-by-line edits to the draft China Antimonopoly law, in many cases to give Chinese regulators greater power over the private sector.