With the U.S. intelligence community due to produce a report on COVID-19 origins in weeks, the Chinese regime has unleashed a new wave of propaganda and disinformation aimed at painting the United States as the pandemic source. Over the past few weeks, the regime has redoubled efforts to link the virus to the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at the Fort Derick Army base in Maryland, a theory first proposed by a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson last year despite not having any evidence. The concerted propaganda push comes as the regime faces mounting international scrutiny over whether the COVID-19 virus originated from a Chinese lab in Wuhan, where the virus first started spreading. Meanwhile, in China, a fast-spreading Delta variant of the virus is challenging Beijing’s costly lockdown strategy. The state-owned Science and Technology Daily, which the regime has described as “a major publicity channel for the …