if your own ecomony was in shambles with new malls, residences, and high rise commercial building completely empty and uninhabited....and, if you were a communist power completely controlled by a few state leaders how hard would it be to
1) release an engineered SARS-like virus out of your nation's ONLY level 4 virology lab in Wuhan which just so happens to be the world's foremost authority on viruses that reside in asymptomatic bats
2) one you create a virus that can jump from bat to human you then "accidentaly" have a virologist infect himself and then head to an open wet market where thousands of people are infected either directly by the virologist or through the infected bats he supplies to the market
3) once the first cases are diagnosed you immediately quarantine this land locked city so your country does not get mass infected but you allow all international flights to/from the Hubei Province to continue as scheduled for 3 months before any nation bans these trips. And don't forget to make all whistleblowers disappear while you provide inaccurate information to the WHO
4) send out millions of faulty masks, ventilators, gowns, and shields so that healthcare workers in foreign countries have little protection against contracting the virus which is also tearing through 1st responders (police, fire, emt) in the most densely populated enemy cities
5) infiltrate the TDS-obsessed liberal media by creating fake news stories that you know they will parrot to keep the anger focused on one large Orange fella and not on the despicable communist government of China
6) because you released it in a land-locked city and locked down all domestic travel your nation emerges economically months before anyone else, and, are now relied upon even more than pre-Covid for raw materials and finished goods including medication, chemicals, glass, steel, and textiles.
7) and don't forget to accelerate the destruction of the world's oil/petroleum market where you are nearly 100% dependent on imports (look into how many products require petroleum as the originating raw material)
but, please don't call this the CCP or Chinese Virus …