Do you really believe that China is undergoing a recovery and everything is fine over there right now? Because I don't. The fact that they hid numbers makes me very skeptic about just anything they say. It's probably just pretending that everything is fine.
By all that can be seen and read, China has managed to curb the epidemic (it has not been newly infected in the past 48 hours), and they are back in business - factories started working again, children went to school, life slowly returned to normal. I don't think they have a reason to hide something, the people on the streets and the kids at school are proof enough that the situation has changed.
But all this has been achieved by unthinkable measures for the Western world, because when it comes to the Communist Party, they do not ask citizens for their opinion, the measures are implemented rigorously and without hesitation. This is the reason that they were able to defeat COVID-19 (for now) and the rest of the world did not react in time.
Because of all this, China will recover much faster than other countries - just remember the 2008 recession - while the global economy was on its knees, China was buying everything that was worth and what could be bought.
New economic data released on Monday showed the Chinese economy was hit severely by the coronavirus outbreak, with retail sales plunging 20.5% compared to a year earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
At the same time, industrial output also fell 13.5% during the same period, while fixed asset investment plunged 24.5%.