When reports of the emergence of a new virus emerged from China in early 2020, the Beijing regime’s initial response was to claim that the virus outbreak was localised to Wuhan, a city in central China; there was “no evidence” of human-to-human transmission; and the authorities had it under control.
The media were sceptical about these claims, but they were enthusiastically taken up and repeated by the World Health Organisation (WHO), an international agency in which China is a prominen…
