The highly coordinated Chinese COVID-19 relief effort that is underway around the world is in part intended to provide badly-needed supplies to countries in need but also to shift the narrative about China’s role in the entire COVID-19 saga.
Now that China has largely tamed the outbreak at home, Beijing now wants the world to focus more attention on what it’s doing to help others rather than on the fact that this deadly viral outbreak first started in Wuhan.
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