![]() ![]() in 1945.īeijing has not officially knocked down the rumors, and Washington is remaining mum, as is customary in defector cases. The Chinese Communist Party was founded in 1921 and took power in 1949 after a century of civil wars and foreign occupation, including the Japanese conquest that began in the 1930s and ended only with Tokyo’s surrender to the U.S. While its report of Dong attending the June 18 spy-catchers’ conference “doesn’t seem to ring true,” he added, there’s also “no sign of face-saving”-producing him in public-“in anticipation of the 1 July CCP centenary.” “If Dong really did defect, the CCP would squelch public discussion,” Eftimiades told SpyTalk. “It’s full of comments about this situation.” Which leads him to suspect that reports of Dong’s defection may be false. “Chinese social media shows no sign of being scrubbed of comments about Dong,” he said. So there is no clear indication of what's happening.” But he disputed Han’s account of Chinese censorship on the matter. “My tweet about Dong Jingwei came from a source from China,” Han told SpyTalk on Monday, “and I used it to make a point that rumors are flying all over China today because the CCP’s digital dictatorship has totally stopped the free flow of information.”įormer Pentagon, State Department and CIA China expert Nicholas Eftimiades says it’s telling that “Beijing has made no flat denial and hasn't produced Dong publicly. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused, Han alleged. In a June 16 tweet, Han, citing an unnamed source, alleged that China’s foreign minister Wang Yi and Communist Party foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded that the Americans return Dong. ![]() “Therefore there’s no excuse for not posting a recent photo of Dong to refute the rumor,” Han said. ![]() In 2018, party officials posted a photo of him in Germany, along with his boss Chen Yixin, attending a high level Sino-German security meeting. The absence of any photos of Dong at the supposed June 18 seminar is doubly suspicious, Han said, because Beijing has not been shy about publicizing his public meetings before. Dong’s photos have been deleted by the Chinese search engine Baidu, according to some Chinese-language news reports abroad. Beijing denied any knowledge of Chin and called reports of him being their mole “fabricated by American anti-China forces,” Han said.ĭong “was last seen in public in September 2020,” Han told SpyTalk last week. in 1985, but China never admitted his defection, even today.” Yu’s defection led to the FBI’s arrest of Larry Wu-tai Chin, a longtime Chinese mole in the CIA. “For example, Yu Qiangsheng, who was a department-level MSS official…defected to the U.S. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official who defected after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, told SpyTalk in an email on Monday. “The CCP has never admitted any defection of its MSS officers,” Dr. China is loath to admit an official’s defection. ![]()
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