Maybe re-read the article? For an NPR piece, it's loaded with specific attributions and named names, of people pushing "Chinese influence operation" theories.

Or do you mean evidence of widespread (& effective) Chinese influence operations? The article's thesis is that those pretty much don't exist. Notice the quote attributed to Ben Nimmo at OpenAI.

Coincidentally, that's often the same evidence cited by the haters.

Somebody must have intentionally spread all that bullshit about wildly-excessive water usage, for instance. It didn't go viral organically, or because it was true.