I'm not sure how serious you are but I have had some thoughts that might be ridiculous but might not be. I know China was having a bad financial situation with huge drops in GDP, new tariffs, problems with Hong Kong and Taiwan, and no telling what else. This Chinese virus thing pretty much effed up everyone else in the entire world so that they are no worse off than any of the rest of us.
Probably absurd, but I would not put it past them. They need to be hammered by the entire world for this global disaster !
They have been investing heavily in everything USA for a long time, and as the prices of everything fell last month, guess who was there to buy more. The amount of foreign owned farm land in the US is staggering imo.