The portfolio committees did a sterling job of asking tough, demanding questions of suspected state captors.

There are also occasional suspected state-backed DDOS attacks, such as on Estonia and Georgia in 2007.

The 34-year-old, who has won a large following off the island, was briefly abducted and beaten last week by suspected state security agents.

The yuan slumped to more than 6.92 per dollar in late November before suspected state-directed intervention gave the currency a lift.