There are just so many instances to choose from. But in this case, China is referring to Biden’s inability to deliver on his promise to end the pandemic. China’s propaganda arm Global Times put out an article attacking Biden for failing to contain COIVID and lying to us.
“Did American politicians’ promises during the US presidential elections mean anything at all? “I’m going to shut down the virus, not the country,” US President Joe Biden said ambitiously during his presidential campaign in October 2020. However, judging from Biden’s current attitude toward the COVID-19 fight, similar promises made by US politicians are nothing but hollow slogans used to attack other candidates and collect votes.
“Look, there is no federal solution… This gets solved at a state level,” Biden said on Monday referring to stopping the COVID-19 spread in the US. Many American people taunted his words, and the tag “#NoPlanJoe” has gone viral on Twitter. People still remember how Biden released his “seven-point plan to beat COVID-19” last year and said “We’re eight months into this pandemic, and Donald Trump still doesn’t have a plan to get this virus under control. I do.” Ironically, he doesn’t.
It is beyond people’s imagination that the president of a superpower lacks a unified, federal-level guideline in the COVID-19 fight. “People previously thought that anyone would do a better job than former US President Donald Trump in fighting the epidemic. But to be honest, Biden has not made remarkable moves at the federal level apart from encouraging people to get vaccinated and wear masks. US states are working independently and the federal government has not made efforts to keep them unified,” Lü Xiang, a research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times.
In fact, the US’ COVID-19 vaccines were developed during the Trump administration. Biden has not made any practical moves, which is retrogression.”