China triumphant one year after Wuhan lockdown January 19, 2021 at 07:16PM

With China's official death toll from the virus under 5,000, Beijing is on a prolonged victory lap to promote its narrative of how it contained Covid-19, engineered vaccines and rebooted its economy. China this week reported 2.3% GDP growth in 2020 - the slowest in decades but still the only major economy to post positive figures during the pandemic.