[PIF]

The frequent and extended stays in China suggest they don’t even enjoy being in Switzerland.

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Who would? From their perspective, they are surrounded by foreigners.

[Zhang Fei]

[Who would? From their perspective, they are surrounded by foreigners.]

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Like I said, these people are the opposite of sleeper agents. Instead of embedding themselves into the community, they took care to stick out like sore thumbs. Their very ethnicity was a strike against them in terms of blending in. To take no measures to ingratiate themselves with the locals - it’s obvious these people were truly bottom-of-the-barrel, quality-wise. Higher quality prospects presumably had options that did not involve the risk of becoming involuntary guests of foreign governments.

They’re running into the same problem the Russians did once the government stopped being the only game in town, employment-wise. Private companies, while subject to random seizure by grabby apparatchiks, tend to hoover up the cream of the crop. Better pay, better benefits and a lot easier to job hop to other private firms if you hate your boss/job. The dregs go into government, which is why you get spectacular flame-outs like this particular operation.