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  • Prof Kerry Brown, the director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, said an official of Cai’s level having a line of contact with a foreigner, even in cases of intelligence gathering, was “very, very, very unlikely”.

    Members of the politburo “really aren’t accessible”, Brown said. “Particularly under Xi Jinping, [they] don’t really have any liberty to do anything too entrepreneurial.” skip past newsletter promotion

    Brown said the case “raises questions about how British security services assess information in China”.

    I find this story to be the most likely. Even I don’t have time to talk to two random foreigners about gossip