This would have been a closely guarded secret known by only a few people. I wonder if this leak is in response to the situation in Hong Kong. Anyhow, as China's

This would have been a closely guarded secret known by only a few people. I wonder if this leak is in response to the situation in Hong Kong. Anyhow, as China's president Xi wouldn't have taken the decision to let her go back to the US lightly. Given how Xi treated his own political opponents and real possibility of mounting opposition to him within the CCP, allowing his daughter to return to the US starts to make sense.