Chinese Defector Mystery Deepens

Beijing’s sketchy report of Dong Jingwei’s appearance at a spy-catcher seminar only adds suspicion that top counterintelligence official fled to U.S.

Where is Dong Jingwei?

Widespread rumors that China's top counterintelligence official had defected to the United States last February reached a fever pitch over the weekend, propelled largely by unfounded reports in anticommunist and pro-Trump circles that Dong had brought with him evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic had originated in a leak from a viro…