Commentary COVID-19 may very well be China’s Chernobyl, but try telling that to the masters of spin in Beijing. According to a recent editorial in the Global Times, a mouthpiece for the Chinese regime: “More than half a million Chinese netizens have signed a joint letter to the WHO.” They demand that “the organization conduct an investigation into the US’ Fort Detrick lab, a place whose sudden shutdown is still shrouded in secrecy.” Why, they wonder, has the lab “not been subject to any scrutiny from the international community.” A “thorough probe,” they suggest, “could prevent a future epidemic.” Not finished there, the authors of the shameless piece take aim at “certain Western politicians” and media outlets who have identified China as the birthplace of the coronavirus. Truth, as Mark Twain said, is often stranger than fiction. One wonders what the great man would have to say about this particular piece …