On Wednesday, the US recorded 31,061 new infections and 479 deaths.

During the same 24 hours, the US' total infections reached 80.4 million, or a quarter of its total population; its death toll reached 986,153, approaching 1 million.

None of the above information appeared on the Wall Street Journal as a "defeat". Instead, it published an article about Shanghai, with the big, bold headline that "China Turns Covid Victory into Defeat".

With apparent double standard, the newspaper undoubtedly has two yardsticks on measuring the same pandemic, one with ideological bias for China and one that cannot be looser for the US. Or maybe it's just too cold-hearted to care a bit about the sufferings of Americans. In any case, it is against the normal logic of any human being to describe the Shanghai situation, where there is only one patient in severe condition and zero death, as "defeat".

Allegations against the "dynamic clearing" policy have long been there, but China has never given up efforts toward that goal. That's why the WSJ said China will never "admit its people can get affected". That's not because of ideological reasons as the WSJ concluded, but because China cherishes every life and cannot afford to sit idle, watching the people suffering from the virus.

China just cannot see its people's lives turn into cold numbers on the death and disease survey sheet, as is happening now in the US.

And the WSJ will never understand how the Shanghai people hold a cooperative attitude to all lockdown measures, not out of their claimed ideology, but out of a sense of discipline. They know they will get help, and that cutting the transmission of virus helps all.

Do not forget the fact that China brought the COVID-19 pandemic under large control as early as 2020. It is the US that failed to control it and caused its spread worldwide. Had US politicians done more to protect US people, and had US media outlets called for support to lockdown measures instead of widening social division, the world pandemic would not be so severe as it is today.

Time for the WSJ to rethink the role it plays in fighting this pandemic facing the entire humankind.