The Chinese regime has leveraged identity politics in the West to deflect attention from its role in causing the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to historian Victor Davis Hanson.
Over the past few months, Beijing has deployed an aggressive information campaign aimed at shaping the narratives surrounding the pandemic in its favor. That involves trumpeting itself as a global leader in fighting the disease, suggesting that the virus originated from outside of China, and criticizing other countries’ handling of the outbreak, while obscuring its coverup of the initial outbreak.
