I clicked on a couple of other articles from the side bar and they all seemed to have the same "skip line after ever sentence" style, but yeah this article does seem especially simplistic and would probably be easy to run through some translation software compared to some articles.
It's the BBC News web style to have relatively simple sentences, and each paragraph be made up of one sentence. The sentences do often become more complex further down an article.
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.
>> I wonder if the target audience of this article is actually non-english speaking people...
> 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).
