{"id":570092,"date":"2021-06-22T07:06:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=570092"},"modified":"2021-06-22T07:06:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:06:58","slug":"mystery-grows-about-rumors-that-top-chinese-official-has-defected-to-u-s-with-info-on-pandemic-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mystery-grows-about-rumors-that-top-chinese-official-has-defected-to-u-s-with-info-on-pandemic-origins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mystery Grows About Rumors That Top Chinese Official Has Defected To U.S. With Info On Pandemic Origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/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%2Fmystery-grows-about-rumors-that-top-chinese-official-has-defected-to-u-s-with-info-on-pandemic-origins%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=570092&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\/China-2-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Some analysts are beginning to speculate that Dong Jingwei, the number two official in the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), has defected to the United States following <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/reports-suggest-u-s-harboring-top-chinese-official-close-to-xi-jinping-gave-info-on-pandemic-origin\">rumors<\/a> on the matter that have started swirling in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The latest piece of evidence that the analysts have used to say that there may be something to the rumors is the fact that Chinese media claimed that Dong addressed intelligence officers in China last week during a seminar, yet no images or videos were ever released of Dong and no location was ever given for where the event happened.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Han Lianchao, a former Chinese foreign ministry official who defected after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, told The Daily Beast that the last time Dong was ever seen in public was in September 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Beast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/mystery-of-top-chinese-spymaster-dong-jingweis-rumored-defection-gets-weirder?ref=scroll\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"26\">\n<p><em>Dong\u2019s photos have been deleted by the Chinese search engine Baidu, according to some Chinese-language news reports abroad. 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. 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. \u201cTherefore there\u2019s no excuse for not posting a recent photo of Dong to refute the rumor,\u201d Han said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In a June 16 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. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken refused, Han alleged. \u201cMy tweet about Dong Jingwei came from a source from China,\u201d Han told SpyTalk on Monday, \u201cand I used it to make a point that rumors are flying all over China today because the CCP\u2019s digital dictatorship has totally stopped the free flow of information.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Nicholas Eftimiades, a former official at the Pentagon and CIA, told The Daily Beast that it was suspicious that China has not put Dong in front the cameras to dispel any notion that he has defected.<\/p>\n<p>Former Pentagon, State Department and CIA China expert Nicholas Eftimiades says it\u2019s telling that \u201cBeijing has made no flat denial and hasn\u2019t produced Dong publicly. So there is no clear indication of what\u2019s happening.\u201d But he disputed Han\u2019s account of Chinese censorship on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the defection of Dong\u2014a rough equivalent of the FBI\u2019s deputy director\u2014is real, shock waves would be felt in every corner of the Ministry of State Security,\u201d Eftimiades said. \u201cThe Chinese side is likely taking normal damage control action, such as pulling officers and agents out of places they shouldn\u2019t be and assessing what harm is done should Dong tell the American all he knows. But his access was probably limited to counterintelligence matters and didn\u2019t include a wider range of secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut Beijing might have a much bigger problem on its hands,\u201d he added. \u201cDid Dong just decide to defect, or has he been an intelligence asset for some period of time?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eftimiades said that China would be humiliated if Dong \u201csuddenly pops up in the American media\u201d and that China could be \u201cgambling the U.S. won\u2019t allow him to go public, but it would be quite a humiliation for them if he did.\u201d He said that if the U.S. has Dong it will eventually leak and become public.<\/p>\n<p>One Chinese analyst told Newsmax last week that if Dong defected that it could lead to \u201cthe fall of the Communist Party.\u201d The same analyst told Fox News on Monday night that he thinks that the rumor is true because China \u201chas every reason in the world to parade this guy in front of the cameras\u201d to \u201csquelch all sorts of rumors that are damaging to the regime.\u201d<\/p>\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>Some analysts are beginning to speculate that Dong Jingwei, the number two official in the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS), has defected to the United States following rumors on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280933,"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\/China-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mystery Grows About Rumors That Top Chinese Official Has Defected To U.S. With Info On Pandemic Origins","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570092","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\/China-2-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Mystery Grows About Rumors That Top Chinese Official Has Defected To U.S. With Info On Pandemic Origins","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570092","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=570092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2280933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}