Beef Invictus
Revolutionary Positivity
The Chinese, like the Russians, don't like to admit to fallibility, remember the events around Chernobyl?
So from the Chinese perspective, better people fear them than laugh at their incompetence.
If the story comes out with confirming evidence, a couple scapegoats will be shot.
China is indeed big on disappearing people. Russia puts their targets through weird mousetrap boardgame-type deaths. Like the guy who they claimed had a heart attack while moving his bathtub and yada yada he fell out a window that had bars. They're mad libbing their "coverups" now.