Heck, this is a country that killed ~75 million of their own in living memory!
http://hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM
https://preview.tinyurl.com/yx2e548c
Stopping the Hong Kong protests with a virus is a lot better than the optics of tanks at another Tianemen Square.
At least that many.
And who knows how many millions more they’ve butchered over millennia before that?