The women’s professional tennis tour is headed back to China, announcing Thursday the end of the boycott linked to concerns over former player Peng Shuai.

Wait! What about the moral high ground? The pre-Beijing 2022 Winter Games lecturing by so many in the West to China, repeated as gospel by willing journalistic interlocutors? The veneration over the past several months of WTA chairman and chief executive Steve Simon, who as recently as last month was saying the women’s tour would return to China only when 1/ it could directly contact Peng and 2/ the Chinese authorities conducted a “full, fair and transparent” investigation?

What about the self-appointed high priests from the many tribes of the reflexively high-dudgeon and sanctimoniously judgmental?