- Only with accountability can there be some deterrence. Especially if there were actors outside of China that were involved.
- The details of the post-mortem will give us valuable insights that we can't get by simply imagining up a worst case from our armchair. If a plane crashes, we want to figure out why it crashed and make specific improvements, rather than just assuming what happened and acting based on a loose and inaccurate mental model.
- If it did leak, there needs to be a cultural reckoning and introspection as to how this was allowed to be so taboo for so long.
- If it did leak, public knowledge of that may be what causes there to be sufficient political will to get regulatory safeguards implemented