Consider this:What happens in Chengdu stays in Chengdu. Even without foreign funding, people have a proclivity for reaching out to conspiracy theories and concocted tales of their own to fill the details and form a story.
Everyone knows how conspiracies and fake news arise. Someone tries to guess and connect dots and voilà!
Until we know more I am still hesitant to believe that foreign funding managed to trigger it (in this particular instance). Naive of me? Certainly.
She's 郑思斯, best friend of 庄祖宜, "wife" of Jim Mullinax, the ex-Consul General. Fancy her showing up at the "protest". She sure looks despondent towards the dead student.