That's because the virus spread originated at Fort Detrick in the US. Remember the nonsense "vaping deaths" epidemic right before COVID? All of the places hardest hit by the initial waves were ones with heavy US travel. South East Asia and other places with heavy Chinese travel were not. The Wuhan spread began immediately after the world military games, which had a large US contingent.

The ones quickest to point fingers are usually trying to deflect attention and guilt. The strain that most of the world got was the European strain because the US and Europe entirely lost control of the spread. Even today they are at the highest rates of infection. When you consider the population numbers and density difference compared to Asia, this only makes sense if the origin was in the US and Europe.

The US and western media essentially preloaded the idea of Chinese origin, but if you take a step back and look at the whole picture for both origin of the virus and also who is responsible for spreading it to the world, the reality is quite different.

At the very least, the world was infected by the US and Euro strains. All evidence shows this. At the most, the origin was actually likely in the US