THE United States is prepared to help China deal with a surge of Covid-19 infections if Beijing requests assistance, the White House hypocritically said on Wednesday. The US and the West, from day one, have constantly attacked and badmouthed China's fight against the pandemic. They have constantly hyped up the seriousness of China's situation. The constant attacks represent an attempt to maintain confidence in the US's increasingly diminishing ability to lead effectively.

After three years of maintaining a strict dynamic zero-Covid policy to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, China is now easing its pandemic controls. This has been primarily in reaction to changing pandemic situation, with the virus no longer posing such a threat to public health. Compared to when the coronavirus came on the scene, China has significantly more resources at its disposal to manage the situation where it didn't before. Along with changing public sentiment and expert opinion, this is obviously one of the major factors in why China is optimizing its zero-Covid policy, simply because it can now successfully manage the virus' spread in society without an outright collapse of the country's medical system.