White flags are seen on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Sept. 16, 2021. More than 660,000 white flags were installed here to honor the lives lost to COVID-19 in the United States.Photo:Xinhua

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) published an article on Wednesday entitled "The Olympics Are Coming to China. So Is Omicron." It seemingly portrays a scenario where the Omicron variant is wreaking havoc in China. Throughout the article lies an ignoble wish that China surrender to the Omicron variant. However, China's effective measures won't turn ineffective under such a naïve smear. Neither will the US' ugly COVID-19 fight become lauded when China sees only a small scale of new infections. 

When the Delta variant raged around the world, China managed to put it under control in a short time. It will be a similar story for Omicron within China's borders. But how has the US performed? Even US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's anti-China trip was cut short because of US' inability to fight the virus effectively. 

The idea that China will successfully host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, despite the Omicron virus, gnaws at the heart of some American elites. But the US, with "the most resilience" against the COVID-19, had better think about how to survive this most recent wave.

Remember the well-known satirical song "Blame Canada" from the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut? If the US continues on its downward path, sooner or later there will be another song entitled "Blame China." China has confirmed two imported Omicron infection cases, but the Chinese people didn't bat an eyelid because they are confident that each time a small-scale outbreak occurs, it is put under control. The people are confident that their normal life won't be affected, nor will the upcoming Winter Olympic Games be impacted.

Obviously, the WSJ is not that confident. Why? The reason lies in the US' ineptitude surrounding the COVID-19 fight, which began about two years ago, continues today, and will go on in the future. In other words, the US has surmounted none of the obstacles in its battle against the epidemic. According to the BNO News, the US reported 243,619 new coronavirus cases on Wednesday, the biggest one-day increase since January. 

The WSJ's article actually reflects a situation, the same old situation in fact: The West always holds onto its own experiences while judging China, even if proven unfeasible time and time again. Even today, the US still refuses to admit that China has done a better job in the COVID-19 fight than they have. They still think that the clear examples of normal life in China are fake. They see everything as propaganda. But if the US is given a chance to propagate its own epidemic fight, what will it say? Maybe that it's most resilient country in pandemic even though more than 800,000 innocent Americans have died due to COVID-19.

The WSJ clamored on in the article, "The problem for the Olympics is that China remains focused on cases as the most important metric, at a time when the Omicron variant is almost certain to increase the raw number of infections around the world."

Feeling that's not enough, it then continued, "China appears to be uniquely vulnerable against Omicron because of its low levels of existing natural immunity among more than one billion people and its heavy reliance on a vaccine that research suggests will be ineffective against this extraordinarily contagious variant."

Reading these statements, people can see that the WSJ is really concerned about how to smear China's dynamic zero-case policy in different sensational ways - the Winter Olympic Games is just another disguise the West media make use of. 

To the country with its National Mall filled with hundreds of thousands of white flags, we say, save it. Just stop badmouthing China and stay away from what is none of your business.