Why was he using an iPhone in the first place? After all, the Xu Yanjun ( my personal hero) incident happened way back in 2019 & his "encrypted" iPhone messages & photographs downloaded & used as evidence against him.
Ideally he & the MSS including the government officials as well as the CCP shouldn't have been using American or western phones in the first place.
Chinese security agencies should've issued due warnings for it way back in the early 2000s itself. Why weren't such warnings issued ? Even now there's no clarity if western phones are banned going by what you're saying.
Which in turn raises the question - is gaokao mandatory for seeking jobs with the government or the MSS? Can't see how it cannot be which in turn means the standards of the gaokao tests has dropped significantly & the intake of inferior candidates has resulted in such a situation, if such basic errors in judgment are made.
What do you think?
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