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One, he's saying the idea that he actually sold or gave nuclear secrets to the U.S.
is pretty preposterous because...
In order to do that, this general would have had to, vice chairman, second most powerful person in China, would have to somehow do it.
And how you do that under the mass surveillance, you have mass surveillance, but you also have very specific surveillance of everybody who is at the very upper echelons, not just for...
you know, controlling them, but looking for foreign, you know, foreign adversarial efforts to, you know, penetrate and surveil those officials.
Like, so they are, the idea that they'd be able to like get some burner phone and like get to the nuclear center and like download the data and then somehow exfiltrate it is like, like something out of like a Jason Bourne, like,
type of situation that isn't like remotely believable.
The idea that there was that Chairman Xi doesn't have a place to stay in Beijing are no also argued was kind of preposterous.
Right.
And so dismissed the coup rumors.
All you can do is say the fact that these these investigations have been announced.
Bad news for the people being investigated.
Very rarely do you get these investigations announced.
Oh, we cleared them.
What's going on here is that this is some type of power struggle.
The for whatever reason, she is moving against these figures.
uh there's appears to be some corruption angle to it she has made like rooting out corruption kind of a centerpiece of his uh his his attempt you know his his effort here and so 2012 you know 2012 on he's going after enormous amounts of corruption within the party and within you know the economy writ large uh whether
And, you know, these folks, you know, have power bases that go back many, many decades.
The vice chairman goes back to, you know, his father was like a hero in the People's Liberation Army, like the founding of it.