If you look at who financed the foundations of Chinese communism its the usual suspects. For Clean Hands, I suspect both of your explanations are active. This thing has layers -- Strategic, Operational, Tactical -- and the ChiComs are either knowing participants or golems for a higher-level Holy War. Admittedly, I have very little in the way of data. This comes just via observation of previous mass-scale subversions and the documents they produce.
If you look at who financed the foundations of Chinese communism its the usual suspects. For Clean Hands, I suspect both of your explanations are active. This thing has layers -- Strategic, Operational, Tactical -- and the ChiComs are either knowing participants or golems for a higher-level Holy War. Admittedly, I have very little in the way of data. This comes just via observation of previous mass-scale subversions and the documents they produce.
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