I believe that you have missed the potential significance of Xi's use of massive authoritarian control. Not using vaccines could have been a test to see whethe

I believe that you have missed the potential significance of Xi's use of massive authoritarian control. Not using vaccines could have been a test to see whether his control would give him a critical advantage over other countries lacking his control. Were a weapon so powerful that the rest of the world could not control it with vaccines, China might come out the most powerful country in the world. If so, then he has learned that the strategy would not work. Regarding your other arguments, Xi controls what the rest of the world knows about China. He could hide whatever he wanted to. You seem to be implying that I am "bloody stupid." You are wrong.