I don’t think that the intention is that insidious. More likely than not Xavier either didn’t enter 052D or got a very limited tour, and tried to pretend that he saw more than he did with and outlandish expose, banking on the fact that PLA’s obsession with secrecy would keep him from being exposed. Little did he know that there already are public videos of the 052DL’s interior! Released a few months before no less.
I think the smart thing for him to do now is to wait until everyone forgets about this. Either that or clarify some of the points he originally made, though the extreme nature of his accusations make it very difficult to make rectifying measures. You either have water proof doors or you don’t. You either have fire fighting equipment or you don’t. We have extensive screen caps from two videos that debunk his claims pretty hard. Unless, of course, PLAN covered all of them with propaganda posters because they thought fire extinguishers were eyesores and wanted it to look nice for foreigners.
What makes this so baffling is that instead of doing something with plausible deniability he chose to make such bold and easily debunkable claims. If he claimed that Chinese fire extinguishers are less sophisticated than ones used on US ships or something then it is not so easily to disprove him.
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