Here’s what I think is happening..

Trump had Xi by the balls for decades of subversion and infiltration of the US government. As part of the trade deal signed in January, and in order to prevent Trump from wiping them off the face of the earth (with help from Russia, Japan, India, and others), China agreed to slowly expose themselves [self-destruct] for being an insidious infection on the world. How? Insert Covid. By all measures, it’s a relatively harmless virus, but with the help of corrupt global orgs and media, could be used as the catalyst to turn the world on China, and provide a self-inflicted cudgel allowing the systematic shrinking of the bamboo forest.