That’s interesting, I was definetely assuming that Xu had won that power struggle and that he didn’t actually care about the biosurveillance - he just wanted it to benefit him (calling it being “against” was bad wording). But those add up to a bunch of those “if” statements, now that I’m reexamining my thought process.
So… consider my objections way less strongly held ? I am much more convinced that context holds the key to all of this, though. We keep running into questions that lead to more questions.