It's a cultural and institutional problem. All you have to do is extrapolate from their general hygienic practices. Wet markets, gutter oil, the whole Covid-19

It's a cultural and institutional problem. All you have to do is extrapolate from their general hygienic practices. Wet markets, gutter oil, the whole Covid-19 pandemic. Germ theory isn't even fully accepted in China, I'm sure someone would have suggested rubbing down the spacecraft with ginseng to align the chi or something. Couple that with the demonstrably awful spacemanship in dropping rocket stages completely at random, for no other reason than méi bàn fǎ. Of course there's a lot of Chinese people, especially of the younger generations, who are perfectly smart and conscientious about these things, just like the whistleblowers at the start of the pandemic. But who do you think approves the budgets for things like decontamination and controlled re-entry procedures, but the feckless, corrupt and superstitious CCP uncles who were formed by Mao's cultural revolution? Of course any criticism of communist China is going to be met with a long string of whataboutisms, so I might as well pre-empt it. Yes, shame on the Americans for incinerating 17 of their astronauts out and endangering many others with their negligence. Shame on the Russians for everything they did wrong. I don't have a horse in the space race, they are all worthy of criticism. Criticism of one does not imply that any of the other are perfect, anyone who thinks that is clearly an idiot.