Interesting staccato writing style. I wonder if the target audience of this article is actually non-english speaking people...
Partly this was done so as to be readable on the old Ceefax and other mediums. But also so that it would be understandable by a wide audience.
> this article does seem especially simplistic and would probably be easy to run through some translation software compared to some articles.
Though, in this case, that's probably not necessary for the main non-English audience for this article. The BBC has a Chinese-language website (https://www.bbc.com/zhongwen/simp).
Unfortunately they discontinued their Mandarin shortwave service (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-12864041), which is still probably the best technology to bypass censorship.