I admit when stuff like this comes up I think of the world analogically, the analogy being a big company with lots of divisions (countries, international orgs)

I admit when stuff like this comes up I think of the world analogically, the analogy being a big company with lots of divisions (countries, international orgs) working on a big important project "keeping the world on track" Sometimes people make mistakes in the company and you realize this big mistake these people made make our "keeping the world on track" project go over budget this year etc. but hey, mistakes happen (sure we've made mistakes too, but really those idiots over on the AI department really screwed up though, huh right guys hah hah) so we're just going to keep going through it, try to iron over the mistakes, write some documents that hide the mistakes from shareholders etc. and keep working on the project "keeping the world on track" because we've got metrics to hit! In short I think probably people realized early on in various other divisions of the big world organization that this was probably the China divisions fault - that is to say an actual 'fuck-up' and not just an accident of nature - and it was just useful to pretend it wasn't their fault until at such a point that things were reasonably back on track and then some reports can be filed indicating which divisions in the company suck and which are super cool divisions to be working at. I'm probably a cynical type of guy.