Xi Zinping is enjoying US criticism over coronavirus because it helps him domestically

I think it's fair to say that the more Donald Trump criticises China for everything that's going wrong with the world the bigger the smile on the face of President Xi Zinping. Criticism is viewed as a badge of honour in Beijing and as Trump's rhetoric assails China almost every day, Zinping uses it to prop up his personal position as the standard bearer of Chinese excellence and the hero of the Chinese people, and also to underline to his domestic audience and to the rest of the world that the Chinese Communist Party is the winner out of the coronavirus pandemic and the democratically-run Western nations are all failures. Zinpng has I believe cemented his legacy as a Great Leader in the eyes of the Chinese people by launching what is probably one of the most effective gloabl disinformation campaigns ever seen in modern times. The message from Beijing is that the CCP has driven the virus from China and the country is getting back to economic greatness, and the the US is sinking further into an abyss with Trump on the edge looking down into disaster. I wonder if Trump and co have realised this, that the constant attacks on China are just building up Zinping's status. Look what he has been doing under the cover of the pandemic: being ever-more aggressive towards Taiwan with military shows of force up the Taiwan Strait, stirring it up in the South and East China Seas, and now in the latest move, producing a tough new security law to stamp down on freedom of expression and rights to protest in Hong Kong. It's a cynical move, following the huge protests against Beijing in the former British colony last October. Zinping does not want to see a repeat of those public and globally publicised street demonstrations that led to clashes with the police and Beijing-supported white-shirted security extras. So new legislation will be put to the National People's Congress and it will be rubber-stamped and passed into law. Beijing knows there will be worldwide criticsm but as I said at the beginning, the more criticism Zinping gets the better and tougher he will be viewed by his fellow Chinese in China. It seems he cannot lose.