A comical effort by China’s intelligence agency
Will a new cartoon convince people to look out for spies?
FOREIGN SPIES are lurking everywhere! So says the Chinese government. Officials were ruffled by the CIA’s claim, made last year, that it was rebuilding its spy networks in China a decade after most of its sources disappeared. But China’s reaction seems defined more by paranoia than vigilance. The national intelligence agency, the Ministry of State Security (MSS), wants the entire population to be on the lookout for spies.
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This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “No laughing matter”
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