China lockdown entire cities and closed its borders, but it didnt tell the west just how dangerous covid-19 really was, china bad
(in my country in the first 4 months of the pandemic they were saying masks arent needed too, only to say a few weeks ago that they always said that masks are necessary)
Good foresight. Although it's amazing just how much they can make about communism [see blobjim's comment].
In the same interview, they said that it was almost certain that asymptomatic people wouldn't transmit the virus.
And I'm not upset they didn't know things early on, it's just the bravado over-confidence in the "Western method" of avoiding asking the populace to do anything and just letting the experts figure it out. They bent the limited data to their notion that something as goofy and paranoid as everyone masking up must be pointless.