The Financial Times noted that such widely publicized actions made a strong impression upon domestic and international observers that the `` overbearing , centralized government '' of China was particularly suited to dealing with the crisis , despite the fact that the lock down of Wuhan came too late to be effective as millions had left .
The Financial Times claimed that the centralized government of China was acting deliberately and publicly to spread the false notion that it was capable of dealing with the 2019-20 coronavirus pandemic .