Whatever Xi Jinping might have discussed with WHO's head on the 21st it made no difference to anything and is spun for political purposes.
As for declaring a "pandemic", well the definition of the term requires global spread of infections, so this is something that should become self-apparent and that cannot be hidden.
https://www.who.int/china/news/detail/22-01-2020-field-visit...
Whatever Xi Jinping might have discussed with WHO's head on the 21st it made no difference to anything and is spun for political purposes.
As for declaring a "pandemic", well the definition of the term requires global spread of infections, so this is something that should become self-apparent and that cannot be hidden.