“The Crown,” a vile creature, is hard to catch in its early stages. To jump across the ocean costs her nothing: from the coastal cities of the USA to Shanghai, the main base of China’s Eastern Fleet—about twelve hours. And it doesn’t matter to us where the infection came from or who infected whom first. If you’re the chief of naval intelligence, you must think and act as though the whole world has already caught the virus—including the Chinese sailors. And take measures.