BM cryptically mentioned that he had put in place a financial arrangement whereby core-devs could continue their work independent of the current low rate of delegate pay.
Would it be reasonable to speculate that this agreement is linked to the new PR initiative in some way?
The announcement written by James Gong (aka. Baozou), but posted by Bytemaster to his personal blog reads very much like a contract with it's bulleted list of performance conditions and use of legalese.
Note, that I am somewhat sympathetic to the Chinese position in this story since I'm not certain their interests were adequately represented in the past.