Nope, they've likely got her family and her finances on lock down. Unless she plans on making a grand symbolic act of defiance that puts all that at risk (like Alexi Navalny w.r.t. Russia) unlikely they need to babysit her much.

Though there are theories that the ostentatious lurking handlers are intentional. The intent isn't so much to try to present a plausible fiction that everyone knows is BS. It's to show power and send a clear message to other Chinese athletes (or citizens, really) who have ideas about criticizing the Party or its members.

Exactly. The loan shark doesn't break your leg because that somehow pays the debt. They do it so nobody else gets the idea that nonpayment is somehow ok.

Thuggery.

A lot of our animal food comes from China. Is it a stretch that your statement could be taken literally ala Soylent Green?

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Trieatalot

It's a C minus world.

But they will be.