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There's a lot of Chinese people, though.

And China has been enticing ethnic Chinese who grew up in the West to "come back to the Motherland" with promises of riches for a long time now. Quite a few made the switch, too. I very much doubt that finding a native English speaker is a problem if it's the PRC govt.

It does make it less likely to be Russia, though. Although of course this could always just be subcontracted.