You’re getting the death sentence in China if you’re caught for this. No doubt about it.
Could this be an attempt to make up some “human rights abuses” claims about China? I feel like it’s too absurd to actually work for spying, but maybe it is more for manufacturing consent.
I think you nailed it. If they can get just one person to take the bait and that person ends up getting caught and punished for it, they feed the story to the media framing it like “Authoritarian China cracks down on innocents who just love democracy and freedom (we totally didn’t pay them)”.
Could this be an attempt to make up some “human rights abuses” claims about China? I feel like it’s too absurd to actually work for spying, but maybe it is more for manufacturing consent.
I think you nailed it. If they can get just one person to take the bait and that person ends up getting caught and punished for it, they feed the story to the media framing it like “Authoritarian China cracks down on innocents who just love democracy and freedom (we totally didn’t pay them)”.