Freeeeze
You are looking at this from a logical perspective. Obviously how else!
There lies the flaw! China is not logical.
Blaming the French or English is BS, they love this ****! (the higher ups) so they can roll back the clock another decade.
And YES! CHINA is frozen for the next 2 months.
(I always wonder, what it has to do the Olympics, with you doing your job or not, but MAYBE they have tickets!)