It makes no sense to blame China for this disaster, there was plenty of coverage of the outbreak and the carnage it wrought, yet no one in authority had the strength or the wit to act.
The WHO would not declare a pandemic, too embarrassing, the US CDC said not to worry, plus the public does not need masks, to disguise the reality that there was a huge shortage of masks, even for doctors and nurses, plus testing was restricted, even though the CDC tests were late and ineffective because of contamination.
The litany of errors is a long one, almost all of them here at home. So we need to get our act together first, before we start correcting others.