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Coronavirus conspiracy theorists blame U.S. for outbreak. China is encouraging them. | The Washington Post

BEIJING — The United States is concealing the true scale of its coronavirus deaths. The United States should learn from China about how to respond to an epidemic. The United States was the origin of the coronavirus — and the global crisis was never China’s fault.

Welcome to the Chinese Internet this week.

As new coronavirus cases and the sense of panic ebb in China, the country that was first struck by the disease has been gripped by a wave of nationalist pride, conspiracy theories and a perennial mix of anti-American sentiments: suspicion, superiority, schadenfreude.

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Source: Coronavirus conspiracy theorists blame U.S. for outbreak. China is encouraging them. – The Washington Post