On November 16, the New York Times (NYT) published an article entitled 'What Videos Show About the Extremes of China's 'Zero Covid' Policy.' In an attempt to delegitimize and smear China's epidemic control policies, the article stated that the Chinese government had taken extreme measures such as separating children from their parents and enforcing strict punishments for violators.

Nowadays, when it comes to the result of the epidemic control, there is a huge gap between China and Western countries represented by the US, and behind the gap are the tremendous differences between the two sides in terms of political systems and national ability, Shen Yi, a professor of Fudan University, told the Global Times.