"Some analysts blamed the early secrecy on regional officials who did not want to give Beijing bad news, but once Xi Jinping assumed control, he doubled down on

"Some analysts blamed the early secrecy on regional officials who did not want to give Beijing bad news, but once Xi Jinping assumed control, he doubled down on the opacity." It seems we haven't yet successfully learnt anything from Chernobyl or Tbilisi—the odds of learning from current events are not particularly high.