The CCP controls information back home. By putting the woman in the public eye, they can use that fact to discredit the author's implication that she was captu

The CCP controls information back home. By putting the woman in the public eye, they can use that fact to discredit the author's implication that she was captured or ill treated. After all, if the woman is on TV saying 'It's fine, I'm fine, I love the CCP, I live China, don't publish this book or read it, it's full of lies' ... ... well that's all the CCP needs for their home audience at least. They also may have calculated that having the woman in public and 'appearing ok' would do enough to at least discredit claims that she was killed or something macabre.