so, what the chinese appear to be doing is flipping the situation over.

they are currently blaming all new cases on foreigners, just like western governments have tried to do.

give it a few days, and they'll start reporting community transmission (no doubt never fully stopped), as a result of foreigners bringing it in.

it's as bad when they do it as when we do it. but, i'm more concerned about what's happening on the ground than about how the government wants to frame it; i'd take their data with a grain of salt, but ultimately with the expectation that they're creating a delay in the data. they'll publish, once they can frame it as something they can blamed on the outside world.

wait for it.