Chinese General Secretary Xi Jinping’s heavy-handed rule is leading Chinese officials 'unhappy with the trajectory' of their country to offer themselves as informants, an Australian spy chief has suggested.
“There's a monoculture that's being enforced,” Australian Secret Intelligence Service Director-General Paul Symon said on Tuesday during an event at the Lowy Institute, a Sydney-based think tank. “We don't yet know exactly how that will play out, but what we're seeing is more and more signs of officials, individuals, interested in a relationship.”That’s an optimistic signal for U.S.
China gave U.S. and Australian leaders an unpleasant jolt last month when Solomon Islands Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare announced the signing of a security agreement that reportedly would allow Beijing to “send police, armed police, military personnel and other law enforcement and armed forces to Solomon Islands to assist in maintaining social order.
President Joe Biden’s team has launched a China Mission Center at the CIA to prioritize espionage operations against Beijing, almost a decade after a major security breach blew the cover of approximately 20 CIA informants. Symon, the Australian spy chief, didn’t miss the opportunity to underscore the amount of effort that his agents put into ensuring the security of their informants — from the “huge amount of training” to equip officers to get in and out of a meeting safely to the planning of the conversations.
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