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It's a propaganda document, so it's going to make a lot of questionable claims and put a lot of spin on things. However, to just address this statement of yours
by DiogenesKynikos 3y ago
It's a propaganda document, so it's going to make a lot of questionable claims and put a lot of spin on things. However, to just address this statement of yours:
"It quotes Covid numbers for itself that are clearly made up."
This document was published in June 2022. At that time, China really did have essentially zero CoVID cases.
Recall that after the initial outbreak in Wuhan, China completely stamped out the virus (by about April 2020) and closed its borders to prevent the virus from re-entering. The only way to get back into China was to go through 2-3 weeks of quarantine, and I'm not talking about "go home and promise not to meet anyone." You got off the plane, were given an immediate PCR test in the airport terminal (in addition to the PCR test you had to take before boarding the plane), and then were put on a bus to go to your special quarantine hotel. You stayed in your room for the entire duration of the quarantine, with regular PCR testing and food/water deliveries to your door. But once you got out of quarantine, you were in a zero-CoVID bubble.
It was kind of surreal that there was this massive country that literally had zero CoVID for long stretches of time (punctuated by local outbreaks that were met with massive containment/testing/tracing/quarantine efforts), and a lot of people outside had a hard time believing it. However, Taiwan, Australia, New Zealand and a few other places did roughly the same thing. Somehow, people had an easier time accepting that Taiwan's zero-CoVID policy (which was very similar to the policy on the mainland) was successful.
This all changed rapidly at the very end of 2022, when the zero-CoVID policy was dropped, and most people in China were infected within a span of about two months. But in June 2022, when this document was published, there really was basically no CoVID in China.