China now seems to have survived the worst coronavirus epidemic, as the number of new cases has fallen sharply and life has returned to normal. But China has also used propaganda to gloss over its role in the pandemic. The State Department last week confirmed a conspiracy theory that the virus was brought to China by U.S. soldiers visiting Wuhan in October. The Chinese government has also claimed to have worked hard to contain the disease as soon as it learned of its existence, although there is evidence that Beijing knew of the disease as early as December and did nothing to warn citizens or prevent its spread. Journalists and diplomats have conscientiously reported that China's propaganda agencies have become exuberant in an effort to shift responsibility for the viruses to the US, with China's systems touted as more effective in containing the epidemic than the West's, and China portrayed as the world's savior. The coronavirus may have inadvertently emer