China Covid19 Lies and cover ups found, page-15

This goes deeper than CCP, it's a cultural imperative to "save face".

Humiliation, reputation, honour, prestige and respect as defined from their point of view is extremely important to Chinese and can be found from grass roots family structures all the way up to governance. It's one of those intransigent traditions that doesn't lock with Anglo western cultural norms and criticism is seen as a gross insult..