Forget the headline and the ridiculous attempt to link it to Covid - it’s what else he knows…..
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...rets-fgrtv626r
Top Chinese spy ‘defects to US to spill Wuhan lab secrets’
One of China’s top spies is said to have defected to the United States and possibly handed the intelligence agencies information backing the theory that coronavirus escaped from a laboratory.
Dong Jingwei, 57, the deputy minister for state security in Beijing, is rumoured to have arrived in the US with his daughter in February, after first flying to Hong Kong. If confirmed, he would be the highest ranking official ever to switch sides between China and America.
Dong’s name has rarely appeared in English-language Chinese media reports. Yesterday, however, he was quoted by the South China Morning Post, a Hong-Kong-based newspaper, ordering the Chinese intelligence services to “step up their efforts to hunt down foreign agents and insiders who collude with ‘anti-China’ forces”.…..
Dong is a career official with years of experience at China’s security ministry. The social media accounts of anti-communist activists have been buzzing with speculation about him.
Han Lianchao, a pro-democracy activist who defected in 1989 after the Tiananmen Square massacre, claimed that Dong was discussed at the US-Sino talks in Alaska in March. Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, was said to have demanded that Dong be extradited, a request that was rejected by the American secretary of state, Antony Blinken.
A senior administration official yesterday denied, however, that any such discussion took place in Alaska……