Surely the rest of the world has a right to sue China over this? Or nuke them?

[Ganpati's Goonerz--AFC's Aboriginal Fertility Cult]

Oh, yes. And not just lefties, either. Over the years I've regularly spoken to people who'll speak admiringly of China's ability to 'get things done' and how relatively mired in 'red tape' we in the West are.

By 'red tape', of course, they actually mean the legal and social protections that are the cornerstones of free societies. If you raise this with them, they'll talk about omelettes and eggs. But, as Orwell pointed out with regard to Soviet Russia 'Where's the omelette?' And situations such as these (in addition to China's actually pretty precarious economic situation and dependency on Western markets, of course), prove that China's omelette isn't all it's cracked up to be.

You mean like that red tape those evil Europeans have imposed on us and that our heroic Buccaneering Brexiters will be ripping up so Britannia can be unchained?

Or is honest to goodness British red tape different from slimy, crypto-commie EU red tape?