How is that a mystery? She is bi-lingual and was born in China. And yes, she did do “actual journalism” there - she worked for CNBC for nearly a decade.
Ok so she’s bilingual. But I still refute that she did much journalism. Sprouting propoganda and operating in a censored environment isn’t really journalism in my books. She had no editorial independence.
Edit: I think someone here put it better than me. She’s a propagandist not a journalist.