• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Or if China suddenly needs leverage to try to get one of their citizens freed, even if you’re not on a list. Or maybe, they might have actually been spies for all I know, though if they were it doesn’t say great things that China was just willing to let them do their thing until they needed them for political reasons.