Or is it? Once the past becomes foreign enough it becomes less politically salient, so study of it becomes more truthful again. We find it far easier to be dispassionate about Alexander's empire than Victoria's empire, to name but one of many examples.
Yeah. China's numbers seem sketchy and there's not a lot of (English) information about what their interventions were.
People are whining about Australia's quarantine camps, but what did China do? We don't really know?