It's a bit mental actually, some former work colleagues who I thought were pretty fair, decent people were discussing this on Facebook and basically said US pilots are better and would have known how to handle this and because Ethiopia & Indonesia are third world countries with poor human rights...
China will be retaliation for the Huawei ban, putting pressure on the US / Boeing.
Lion don't have a great record anyway and have put plenty of planes in the sea.
Seems to be some suggestion that there are some big changes in handling between a 737 and 737-M8, but the training doesn't...