I guess I'd see it more as a continuation of the whole 'kremlinology' trope. Granted, access is difficult in China atm. On the other hand, most of the press doe

I guess I'd see it more as a continuation of the whole 'kremlinology' trope. Granted, access is difficult in China atm. On the other hand, most of the press doesn't like to do deep investigative journalism in any case, so when you put a few barriers in their way, they tend to get real lazy real fast.