There are no 'mays', 'mights' and 'possibles' about the extent to which the Chinese leaders are a devious bunch of liars.
In that respect they are no different to politicians anywhere.
In others areas they are. They tend to be technocratic rather than purely politic. More direct in actions even if inhumane.
China's problems are simple really.
Do they follow US foreign policy - no
so they wont receive any US aid of any type. They have their own,
Would a embargo achieve anything. Highly unlikely and they might retaliate.
Bomb them eg drone strike - don't be silly.
Did they have a revolution and nationalise a lot of assets that they didn't pay for? Like one lot that did get a drone strike.
Does their economy have problems - well no. Debt levels per capita are extremely low. Noises have been made about that - a farce compared with the west.
Does capitalism need them - well yes unfortunately.
Trade wars - well we have had some of that. Doesn't seem to have achieved anything.
Will they come out completely on top eventually. Sounds likely but as that happens a countries goods costs usually increase. Take Taiwan for instance. Work now being done in Africa rather than S Korea.
So what to do - simples, China bashing given any opportunity. Costs little, sounds good but doesn't solve any problems and may not have a grain of truth in it. Sounds nice for Trumpians. A lot of them voted for Trump. Got a keep em happy who ever is elected.
It's a fact that Russia has similar problems.
Time to grow up filly
Also there are people working on corona virus all over the planet - increasingly of late now it's known they can cause extreme grief. So what if it did get out somewhere really? Could have happened anywhere and it's highly likely that it just did it all on it's own. It's been thought for rather a long time that we are well overdue and unpleasant virus cropping up. On this one peoples xenophobic ideas crop up when in real terms they are as developed as well as the west is. So they eat differently - so what. That varies all over the world.