The Battle of “Coronavirus Narratives”: Three Lines of Defence Against China

... able to cope with the challenges awaiting us as we move deeper into the 21 st century. Right now, the West as a whole, and the United States in particular, have been forced to fight a number of difficult defensive battles in the war of “coronavirus narratives.” The public is constantly reminded that COVID-19 did not originate just anywhere, but in China, and hinting at the possibility that the virus was artificially created couldn’t hurt, right? Then there is the argument that Beijing actively misled the international community about the origin ...