I do have a point about that.
I'm afraid I don't think it's quite either. I think the problem....
Let us assume, just for the sake of argument, that there are many in the Chinese leadership who wish this had never happened and wished we had never gotten to this point. The problem is that there are two factions always fighting within China. I don't even say which one is better than the other; I don't have a side. They might as well be the Bloods and Crips for all I care. The point is that neither of them can stop it because, among the ones who stop it, somebody will get blamed and one faction will take the brunt of the guilt for this. For that reason, like a game of musical chairs, this must continue.
That is more the way I see it, that they are stuck in this situation. They really don't know how to stop it. There may have been even an honest attempt within the medical community to do that, but it was believed that it would open up too many cans of worms, that once you started exposing this thing there would be a problem.
I may be wrong in that. That's just my interpretation of the events.