Conflict of Interest, page-13

you think that the Chinese parties are acting in isolation and independently of PRC agenda both now and in the past ????

IMO what we are seeing now with ALL players has always been in the plan . It’s now upto FT to take a stance but without explicit massive support from west then IMO, like NF, he had no alternative but to seek a compromised solution . if you don’t see the west stumping up billions within a legal framework (which we haven’t ) , FT needs pragmatic way forward as elections loom closer . The current dynamics and their gravity is no coincidental happenstance … IMO