Even if a story is true, it is still in all likelihood at least a partial misinfo campaign. Either someone aims to benefit from the whole lie, the partial lie, or that one sentence that puts the intended idea in people's heads. It is such a common thing that it doesn't even matter who did it anymore: *Cui bono* is uninteresting in a world where everything is a commodity.

All that matters is capability.

I was wondering how much of a spy she was. 

In some sense, almost every Chinese person who travels abroad for an extensive period is a spy, because they will often be questioned upon their return home. 

That doesn’t mean they are going out of their way to obtain information or even that they’re particularly forthcoming about what they happened to learn.

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> every news story of a certain scale is part of something IC scripted

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