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henrik

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Not economist again.
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This is who writes the Economist's China-related drivel, which explains a lot

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David Rennie (born 1971)[2] is a British journalist. He is a columnist for The Economist, where until September 2017 he served as the Lexington columnist (Farewell Lexington column). He is currently Beijing bureau chief and author of the Chaguan column on China.[3] He is the son of Sir John Rennie, former 'C' (i.e., Director) of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).[4]

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Sir John Ogilvy Rennie, KCMG (13 January 1914 – 30 September 1981)[1] was the 6th Director of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1968 to 1973. He was once the head of the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret branch of the UK Foreign Office dedicated to pro-colonial and anti-communist propaganda during the Cold War.

On 15 January 1973, Rennie's son Charles Tatham Ogilvy Rennie, and his daughter-in-law were arrested for an alleged involvement in the importation of large quantities of heroin from Hong Kong.[2] Rennie resigned not long afterwards.[2] (lol)
 

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I'd bet half my liquid wealth that David Rennie is an active member of MI6 now and his job as a "columnist for the Economist" is both a cover and a part of his current mission.
This is quite obvious for me too.

Why does David Rennie always travel through all four corners of China, only to write the exact same China-bad article each time? He could do the same thing sitting in an apartment in Beijing, but instead he visits obscure places that no tourist or Westerner would ever go to. He's obviously gathering intelligence and reporting it to the Five Eyes.

China of course also knows, since it's not stupid. It lets him get away with this because relations with the UK are as good as can be hoped for, for a Five Eyes country. After all, the UK doesn't have any tariffs on China, outbound investment bans on China, and still lets in some Chinese investment. For America's greatest ally/vassal, that's pretty decent.
 
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