2. Under normal circumstances, the intermediary will not cheat the article, unless the article has been approved by the editorial department, the author repents and publishes it, and the intermediary can't settle accounts with the magazine, then the manuscript is transferred.

3. Whether the article should be published early depends on many specific circumstances. Mainly depends on your local requirements.

As long as his article has not been published and your article has not borrowed too much from other people's manuscripts, you can publish it.

If it has been published there, your manuscript can't be published. The editorial department will check plagiarism and refuse it.

If you evaluate the professional title in your area, you must check it repeatedly, and your article must be published earlier than the intermediary, because the first publication will prevail.

If you don't check the copy locally, it doesn't matter much whether it is published sooner or later.