Excuse the humourous comparison below, but sometimes you have to expose the nerve of the ridiculous to make sense of things
It's quite difficult to believe how close to finding a smoking gun this is getting, without cooperation from the CCP. It's far more difficult to get your head around why they aren't either; owning up to the error if one was made, or providing the information that would settle the matter?
From a humorous perspective, it's like the CCP
equivalent of singing the Shaggy song "It wasn't me."
Not clearing the issue up, is going to leave the
CCP in the doghouse for decades to come. What's the benefit? Why would a
country/regime do that to itself? And especially when they have far-reaching
commercial interests around the world and could with a little bit more openness
be a force for good.
Am I naive, would there be retaliation against the
CCP or China? Would the rest of the world vent their fury and exacerbate the
situation? Or would everyone learn the lessons fill the cracks and make the
world safer? The potential for instability in the long-term unknowns (I think),
is far worse than the short-term finger-wagging ruckus that will ensue if the
CCP put's its hands up and concedes it dropped the ball.
Matt Ridley's Original Blogpost
Lyrics
It Wasn't Me
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