{"id":567560,"date":"2021-06-18T07:21:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567560"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:21:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:21:44","slug":"reports-suggest-u-s-harboring-top-chinese-official-close-to-xi-jinping-gave-info-on-pandemic-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-suggest-u-s-harboring-top-chinese-official-close-to-xi-jinping-gave-info-on-pandemic-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Reports Suggest U.S. Harboring Top Chinese Official \u2018Close To\u2019 Xi Jinping, Gave Info On Pandemic Origin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freports-suggest-u-s-harboring-top-chinese-official-close-to-xi-jinping-gave-info-on-pandemic-origin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=567560&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Xi-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>A flurry of recent media reports suggest that the U.S. government might be harboring a top Chinese official who is reportedly \u201cclose to\u201d Chinese President Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>The reports suggest that Dong Jingwei, a longtime official in China\u2019s Ministry of State Security (MSS), defected to the United States to turn over information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChinese-language anti-communist media and Twitter are abuzz this week with rumors that a vice minister of State Security, Dong Jingwei defected in mid-February, flying from Hong Kong to the United States with his daughter, Dong Yang,\u201d The Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/rumors-of-us-secretly-harboring-top-china-official-dong-jingwei-swirl\">reported<\/a>. \u201cDong Jingwei supposedly gave the U.S. information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology that changed the stance of the Biden administration concerning the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report repeatedly cautioned that various intelligence experts have cautioned that the information is nothing more than a rumor at this point and that it could very well be false.<\/p>\n<p>Former Fox News correspondent Adam Housley <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamhousley\/status\/1400670397473775617\">said<\/a> at the start of the month that the recent pressure on China from the Biden administration was \u201cdue to a defector with intimate knowledge\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/adamhousley\/status\/1400679023668187137\">about<\/a> \u201cWuhan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast report continued:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"23\">\n<p><em>[Dong\u2019s] publicly available background indicates that he was responsible for the Ministry\u2019s counterintelligence efforts in China, i.e., spy-catching, since being promoted to vice minister in April 2018. If the stories are true, Dong would be the highest-level defector in the history of the People\u2019s Republic of China.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Dong\u2019s defection was raised by Chinese officials last March at the Sino-American summit in Alaska, according to Dr. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official before defecting after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. In a Wednesday tweet, Han, citing an unnamed source, alleged that China\u2019s foreign minister Wang Yi and Communist Party foreign affairs boss Yang Jiechi demanded that the Americans return Dong, and U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>RedState, which broke bombshell allegations that led to then-Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) resigning from Congress in 2019, <a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/jenvanlaar\/2021\/06\/04\/exclusive-high-ranking-chinese-defector-has-direct-knowledge-of-several-chinese-special-weapons-programs-n391238\">reported<\/a> earlier this month that sources inside the intelligence community said that it had a Chinese defector who had \u201cknowledge of special weapons programs in China, including bioweapons programs.\u201d RedState said that Chinese defector had been providing information to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) for months.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2020, Washington Times reporter Bill Gertz reported that a Chinese defector had fled to Europe and provided information that reached the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The report <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/16\/second-china-defector-gives-biological-weapons-inf\/\">said<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>U.S. intelligence agencies recently increased their knowledge of China\u2019s covert biological weapons program with the help of a defector from the People\u2019s Liberation Army, according to people familiar with the incident.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The defector escaped from China and traveled to Europe, where he is under the protection of a European government security service, according to the sources. The PLA defector believes that Chinese intelligence has penetrated the U.S. government and is therefore wary of cooperating with the CIA and other Western spy agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Still, the defector has provided some information about China\u2019s biological arms program that has reached the U.S. government. No other details of the defection could be learned.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A flurry of recent media reports suggest that the U.S. government might be harboring a top Chinese official who is reportedly \u201cclose to\u201d Chinese President Xi Jinping.The reports suggest that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280658,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Xi-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Reports Suggest U.S. Harboring Top Chinese Official \u2018Close To\u2019 Xi Jinping, Gave Info On Pandemic Origin","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Xi-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Reports Suggest U.S. Harboring Top Chinese Official \u2018Close To\u2019 Xi Jinping, Gave Info On Pandemic Origin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567560\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}