Why you guys spend so much time arguing that stupid piece. It has zero influence to Chinese decision makers.
Assuming that piece is true, and China is not short of people who can write those kind of things. These type of people came from 1980's, they typically supported Zhao Ziyang, if you still know who he was, with funding or close relationship with the West, Note that current vice president Wang Qishan was also funded by Ford Foundation at that time and got to know
Timothy Geithner's father.
After Tiananmen square, Zhao's inner circle got purged, but same type of like experienced or minded people have been able to advocate many stupid things, none of them really changed Chinese decision making. A couple exceptions to this could be some delay to high-speed rail projects or prolonged one-child policy.
Why CCP allowed these people to exist or infiltrate the government is up to debate.. maybe intentional to keep some harmless idiots, maybe not. But these are some people that even ordinary people can see through, not to mention decision makers.