It seems like the CDC doesn't learn from what is happening in other countries. The initial response was completely botched, including a costly testing delay, because they didn't learn from China. Now they are making conflicting statements and changing their minds over the Delta wave as data comes in from the US outbreak when they could have got it right from day 1 just by looking at how the virus behaved when it hit the UK.
The CCP isn't the only source of information about what is happening in China.
China is not North Korea. There is a large foreign presence in China. Wuhan is a large city (between Moscow and Seoul in population) with many foreigners present there for business. The US, the UK, France, and South Korea maintain diplomatic offices in Wuhan.
That's a lot of non-Chinese observers who could see first hand what is happening in Wuhan and report back to their home countries.
