China Is Avoiding Blame by Trolling the World

The evidence of China’s deliberate cover-up of the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan is a matter of public record. In suppressing information about the virus, doing little to contain it, and allowing it to spread unchecked in the crucial early days and weeks, the regime imperiled not only its own country and its own citizens but also the more than 100 nations now facing their own potentially devastating outbreaks. More perniciously, the Chinese government those brave doctors and whistleblowers who attempted to sound the alarm and warn their fellow citizens when they understood the gravity