conix, Yes. The Chinese obviously decided to let them out of the country as they had no valid reason for
arresting them and didn't want to create further conflict by doing the wrong thing in the case of those two.
i intend to post re that. For your future reference, i am not a WSJ subscriber.
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”