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- President Donald Trump has overseen a chaotic response to the US coronavirus outbreak, downplaying its severity and repeatedly changing his stance on China.
- This is undermining US authority to criticize how China handled the initial outbreak, which began in Wuhan.
- China has capitalized on this, with state media and government officials highlighting the US inconsistencies and saying it is "hid[ing] their incompetence by blaming China."
- There are signs that the Chinese public — the Communist Party's most important audience — is also losing trust in the US.
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China's Communist Party has in recent weeks embarked on an expansive propaganda campaign to recoup its public image as the coronavirus ravages much of the world.
Its efforts have included sending medical equipment around the world and injecting hundreds of millions of dollars into the World Health Organization, from which the US has withheld funding.
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