Check your client settings and see if it is set to automatically add newly downloaded torrent files. I get this sometimes if I accidentally download the .torrent file twice. What happens is you get 2 copies of the .torrent file in you downloads folder in Windows. When I delete a download from my client it's set to also delete the .torrent file. What can happen is that if there's a duplicate in the watched download folder it will immediately pick that up and start downloading it.

@herbert967: The government of China should be held responsible to a degree because they lied about it. In general I agree, but at a basic level it's people who lie, not large institutions.  That said, people in an autocratic government who will tow the party line to preserve their jobs and, in dire cases, their lives.  We saw this with Hitler, very likely with Xi, and definitely with Trump.