Commentary Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Beijing has used the crisis as a business opportunity to export Chinese-made personal protective equipment (PPE) and medical supplies. However, a large number of Chinese-made COVID-19 testing kits and masks are of inferior quality. And this has once again tarnished China’s international image. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has denied responsibility for spreading the coronavirus and has even accused other countries of being the source. At the same time, it has engaged in “mask diplomacy” and “anti-epidemic diplomacy.” Defective Testing Kits On Aug. 25, the Swedish Public Health Agency stated that about 3,700 people in Sweden were given false positive results due to defective test kits from China. And these kits were also widely distributed to other countries. On April 27, White House trade adviser Peter Navarro accused China of “sending low-quality and even counterfeit coronavirus antibody testing kits to the United States.” On the …
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