Commentary The COVID-19 pandemic has been around long enough—about two years since it first emerged in China’s Wuhan city—for the first draft of history to segue into a deeper understanding of its lessons and implications. While historians will debate its consequences for decades to come, at this point, we may draw five conclusions about its broader implications for the Chinese regime and the world. Beijing Conceals the Truth First, as time passes, some facts, already transparent today, will be recognized as truth as more actors are forced to admit them. The Chinese regime concealed the facts of COVID-19’s origins, ease of transmission, and withheld information that allowed COVID-19’s propagation. The World Health Organization (WHO) was complicit in this deception to its lasting disgrace. The regime lied about the provenance of the virus, at various times blaming the U.S. Army, the Italians, or others for its origins. Countless other governments and …