Why not India? I explained this already. Why would they not have seen the explosions in cases around the same time as similar geographical locations last year, but suddenly start exploding now? There's no explanation for it.
There are several people who command control over large amounts of resources who think they know what's best for everyone else. I would love to have reliable information about who is pulling what strings. But I don't believe the "liberal leadership" in this country wield any real power, in the grand scheme.
As for what benefit it is to push a lie about the state of covid in India, I don't have to know that to know they are lying. If you look at what they are trying to accomplish by pushing that narrative, then it's reasonable to assume that the goal is to get public approval for sending India raw materials for the vaccine, and the IP for how to make them.
The WSJ opinion piece
@Box Ox posted suggested this is being done to hurt the pharmaceutical industry. I highly doubt that. I think it benefits
someone to have vaccines manufactured in a cheaper labor market, with fewer quality controls. I don't know who owns what, or what relationships exist, so I can't speak to who is benefitting, but it seems to me that pharma wouldn't just let Biden force them to hand over their IP to people who are in competition with them.