As Coronavirus Rages On, Chinese Regime Promotes Its Containment Efforts

A large screen in the street shows Chinese leader Xi Jinping wearing a protective mask during his visit to Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus, on CCTV's evening newscast in Beijing on March 10, 2020. Kevin Frayer/Getty Images

With COVID-19 infections skyrocketing in countries outside China, the Chinese regime has recently ratcheted up propaganda portraying its containment measures as a model for others to follow.

Chinese authorities on March 11 sent a seven-member medical team to Italy, where the epidemic is most severe outside China. This is the first team Beijing has dispatched overseas since it began calling itself the world’s rescuer.