[LurkingPenguin]

For context, I'm an expat who has traveled extensively in Asia and currently lives in Taiwan. I have spent time in China, and had personal and business dealings with Chinese, Taiwanese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Indonesians, Filipinos, Koreans, etc. while living in the region. So I think I probably have a more informed perspective about the region than people who haven't spent any time here.

My comment is straightforward: in China, it would not be surprising if an "incident" was the result of negligence (Google search "chabuduo") or sabotage, or if sabotage was used as an excuse to "save face" (Google it).

Since nothing in my comment called China "the most evil bogeyman in the world", your hyperbolic response is curious to me. In China, at a certain level of business, the state in some form is omnipresent. Feel free to not explore the implications of that and make value judgements, but this is a simple fact that you'd know if you spent any time here.