Election season is underway, and US media are gleefully scrambling to pull every interview, TV appearance and Chipotle receipt from the archives of candidates in hopes of unleashing a political shitstorm upon the world. Reporters at BuzzFeed only needed to look back as far as January for a newsworthy morsel of China-bashing from Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina, when she commented that the Chinese are “not terribly imaginative” and merely leech off of Americans’ intellectual property.