Thirty-two years ago this week, the West watched in horror as the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) turned its tanks on protesters in Tiananmen Square. The West was equally horrified, at the outset of the pandemic, by the brutality of the repression exercised by the CCP as the Sars2 virus spread through Wuhan: the monstering of Dr Li Wenliang simply for trying to warn his colleagues about an outbreak of a novel Sars-like pneumonia; the locking down of an entire city of eleven million people turning it into an eerie ghost town.