It's been like this as long as I can remember. At least one major newspaper would have an article a week about how China's on the verge of economic collapse and there are a billion obvious signs. People still gobble it up. It's impossible to convince people that it's BS. It's people passing off their hopes that their rival is a total mess as truth.

China's striking back now by "allowing" (promoting) conspiracy theories on social media that the US military created the virus and tried to use it to take down China.