China’s US apologists: Goodwin

Don’t mess with China, or you’ll meet your Waterloo and also break your four Achilles’ heels. 

That’s the garbled, kitchen-sink warning China is throwing at President Biden after his order for intelligence agencies to probe whether the coronavirus leaked from a Chinese lab instead of being transmitted from bats to humans.  The insulting, threatening tone, conveyed by English-language media controlled by the ruling Communist Party, is so over-the-top that it’s a giveaway: China is hiding something about the origins of the virus and is determined to keep it hidden.