Now that the spread of coronavirus seems to be on a decline in China, it has projected the image to the world that it wants to ‘help’. However reports seem to suggest something absolutely opposite.

When China was in the middle of crisis, Italy reportedly donated masks and PPE kits to the country. Now that Italy is at war with the disease, China came forward and said it would donate PPE kits to the country. However, according to The Spectator report, China instead of donating these items, is SELLING the PPE kits to Italy, that the latter donated in the first place.

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A senior administration official of the Trump government told The Spectator, “Before the virus hit Europe, Italy sent tons of PPE to China to help China protect its own population. China then has sent Italian PPE back to Italy — some of it, not even all of it … and charged them for it.”

If true, this is not an isolated case of China’s ‘help’ to other nations. Spain returned over 50,000 faulty kits back to China; these had a detection rate of only 30%. Czech republic also reported receiving faulty kits. There have been reports from Pakistani local media where China seems to have sent its all-weather-ally face masks made of undergarments rather than the promised N-95 masks.

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Netherlands had to withdraw masks shipped from China as they did not meet safety standards.

“It’s so disingenuous for Chinese officials now to say we are the ones who are helping the Italians or we are the ones who are helping the developing world… Of course they should be helping. They have a special responsibility to help because they are the ones who began the spread of the coronavirus and did not give the information required to the rest of the world to plan accordingly,” The Spectator quoted the official as saying.

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Well, that's not a nice thing to do, is it? Especially when the damage is at such a huge scale.