The World Health Organization has asked China for more data on respiratory illnesses spreading in the north of the country, but Beijing offered no public comment on Thursday.
I don't blame Beijing honestly. Bigots will just run around screaming "China Flu", claim its from a lab or whatever. And they're the same people who don't trust WHO, or vaccines or whatever anyway
I'm not sure they have much to gain from collaborating unfortunately.
Possibly people would over time stop treating them like enemies, if they actually behaved like allies. The whole world is (very slowly) moving away from any dependence on China.
If they actually cooperated with the rest of the world instead of trying to take advantage of it while slowly planning how to take over Asia, they'd have it easier.
You don't ask China about novel diseases, just like you don't ask about war-crimes US and it's vassal state commits. Their populace or anyone under the influence of their propaganda gets mighty defensive about it.