Yes China suppressed news and stats, yes they're using aid as geopolitics ... but this Mail splash is a straight propaganda offensive to deflect from Johnson's incompetence, for which 000s will pay with their lives 1/... 
2/ We had a criminally underprepared NHS: here's @TheLancet on the details... secure.jbs.elsevierhealth.com/action/getShar…
3/ Johnson/Cummings response was politicised nonsense - with Whitehall's culture of irresponsibility compounding the mess - here's @BylineTimes bylinetimes.com/2020/03/23/cov…
4/ and for the past week the "lockdown" has been phoney ... construction sites working - this China scare story is being spread for one reason: to deflect the anger that is coming ...
5/ I warned on 4 March Johnson and the medical technocrats we're likely to screw this up... newstatesman.com/politics/uk/20…
6/ The actual threat from China is that together with Russia it is promoting disinformation about the epidemic - designed to erode our belief in democracy: newstatesman.com/world/north-am…
7/ Their main target is the EU, which Russian TV continually says has "disintegrated" - if Berlin/ The Hague don't stop blocking a Euro fiscal stimulus they will hand CN/RU the geopolitical victory of a century
