This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen! A torch run by boat.
They are so scared of an incident. It’s very important to the Chinese government that they can tell their people that America respects the CCP. For one thing there are many more Chinese in America than those countries and the average Chinese cares much more what America thinks than what UK or France thinks.
They simply cannot bear what happened in London and Paris to repeat itself in America. They would not be able to cover it up and gloss over like they did, and it would be a major embarrassment.