Back to the plot.

The list of future events from the briefcases, some basic questions. Are these all artificially created or some artificial, some natural? If some are natural, how can the Chinese predict them with any accuracy? Where did they get their intel?

Does this improve or enhance any credibility one may give to the Burisch story of "Looking Glass" devices? If such devices were supposed to be disabled and disassembled to minimise the chance of some very negative future timeline from materialising, could this explain the panic if China has independently activated such a device, perhaps received from "visitors" with a strong investment in the very negative timeline actually coming to be?