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[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So this wasn’t even like, espionage? Did they literally just take reams of highly confidential paper to what sounds like a second hand book store? It reads like they didn’t know what they had in their hands

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

I just love the line, "grandpa zhang, who collects military and historical newspapers as a hobby spotted the documents at a stall"

Such a grandpa thing to do

[–] dept@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

they probably just felt it was a waste to destroy the paper lol

If it's anything like Egypt, old papers and books can usually be sold to scrap sellers for pocket change and they're sometimes resold to falafel restaurants to wrap the falafels in.

I assume this is a similar thing in China but replace falafel with the Chinese street food equivalent.

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 10 points 4 months ago

I guess China's civil servants are all big Warthunder players