>if any government involvement There's the lynchpin right there. It's not just any government involvement. CCTV is a state-run broadcaster which is notorious f

>if any government involvement There's the lynchpin right there. It's not just any government involvement. CCTV is a state-run broadcaster which is notorious for having its content directly controlled by the Chinese government. This isn't "sometimes the Chinese government leans on CCTV"; it's "the Chinese government exerts continuous editorial control over the content on CCTV." > I see lots of other things that might be a result of government involvement, but those things have plausible mundane motives as well. So I'm hesitant to identify them as definitive proof of a government plot. There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes "evidence". Evidence does not have to be definitive proof. The mere utterance of a statement on CCTV is evidence that that statement aligns with China's political goals. Add that to a whole bunch of weird shenanigans, like the weibo censorship thing, and you have a pretty suggestive picture.