By institutionalizing "Xi Jinping thought" and enshrining it in foreign policy, the political regime run by the Chinese Communist Party operates on, according to their own words, "the lack of respect towards scientific data and the draconian checks within the Chinese system." In a similar vein, the ever-changing reporting criteria for the coronavirus epitomizes China's arbitrary 'standard'. The imprecision, or the intended inaccuracy, allows government officials to shrug off their accountability and the party members to carry out their political agendas. Therefore, the most transparent and thorough set of data of the Wuhan pneumonia can only be obtained outside China. This is, for instance, the statistics from the Diamond Princess Cruise which has been anchored in Yokohama, Japan since February 4, 2020. While the world is discussing whether the statistics…