Interesting timing. All these details about the China trips, the WeChat videos, the voting records, and questions around the severity of the “car accident” only started circulating after he announced he was resigning for health reasons. Yet somehow the people digging into it are just “keyboard commandos” and “influencers,” while most of the mainstream media is largely silent or repeating the official line. If independent researchers and regular people online are the ones forcing these questions into the open, that says more about the state of political journalism than it does about the people asking them.