Media coverage of China was more than twice as likely to be positive than negative in 2020, despite covering up the outbreak of the global COVID-19 pandemic which caused 3,325,260 deaths, set off a worldwide recession that contracted the global economy by an estimated 4.4%, and dramatically altered life for every single human being on the planet. More than half (56%) of journalists in a global survey said news stories about the People’s Republic of China had become more favorable during 2020, while only 24% said they saw more critical stories.
Such an upsurge seems surprising, since reports indicate that China deliberately concealed the extent of the pandemic in the early days of the Wuhan outbreak and expropriated more than $60 million in PPE from the United States. Then the CCP barred Western companies based in China from exporting PPE to the United States, while selling the West face masks produced by the slave labor of the nation’s persecuted Uighur Muslim minority. Many of these Chinese exports proved useless or harmful. The Chinese company Crawford Technology Group sold the United States 140,400 defective KN95 respirator masks before the Trump administration filed charges last July.
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