High-level Chinese Defection Rumored: State Security Vice Minister Dong Jingwei's defection would be highest ever in the history of the People's Republic. By @matthew_brazil & @SpyTalker for @talk_spy spytalk.co/p/high-level-c…
'Dong is, or was, a longtime official in China’s Ministry of State Security, responsible counterintelligence, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, he would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People’s Republic of China.'
At the Sino-American summit in Alaska, China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and CCP foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded the US return Dong. but Sec. State Anthony Blinken refused, acc to Han Lianchao, a fmr foreign ministry official who defected after the Tienanmin massacre.
Former DoD, State & CIA #China expert Nicholas Eftimiades urged caution about the #defector report. But he called Dr. Han, a pro-democracy activist with the D.C.-based Citizen Power Initiative for China group, 'a straight shooter, not known to exaggerate in any way or form...'
Mollie Saltskog, a senior intelligence analyst with @TheSoufanGroup , said 'one high-level defection will not drastically change our understanding or approach to China. In short, if true, this is potentially significant but not a game-changer.'
'Chinese-language press stories also claim that Dong’s daughter Yang defected with him from Hong Kong on or about Feb. 10. She is allegedly the former spouse of a senior Alibaba Group executive, Jiang Fan, who heads up TMall, China’s big Amazon-like business.'
Rightwing US media weaponized the defector report, saying the DIA had received information from him that Beijing is covering up biological warfare research at the Wuhan lab, and advanced its story to question the integrity of Dr. Anthony Fauci.'
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