Leaked Chinese government health documents showing the Communist Party lied about the original coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan provide further confirmation of something we have been warning about since the start of the pandemic — that there is no reason to take any information coming out of China at face value.

China’s gross deception here is a symptom of the much greater virus that infects the Chinese Communist Party — a virus of absolute disinterest for the interests of its own people, let alone those of the rest of the world. President-elect Joe Biden must be astute to this reality. If not, China will use its mixing of favorable words and veiled truths to undermine American interests.