The former mayor of Xiamen will do anything required to retain power. He self-styles as Mao’s successor, to bring Communism to the entire Earth. Think Cultural Revolution, to lose a few million is not chaos to Beijing, it is merely accounting.
I was in Xiamen when One Belt One Road was made public, and the BRIC representatives were there. The preparations and construction projects dwarfed the hospitals in Wuhan.
Americans have NO CLUE about Chinese thought, to the point of horror for me. They are the Soviets crosses with the Nazis, and are hell bent on world domination.
The Japanese worked diligently during WW2 on all sorts of hideous diseases deliberately inflicted on POW’s of all nations...especially Chinese. Also, they did a lot of work on surgery and organ removal and transplant...without anesthesia. The Chinese learned very well.