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‘Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer’: A Resource for Understanding the U.S.-China Clash

‘Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer’: A Resource for Understanding the U.S.-China Clash
Li Wenliang. Courtesy of Li Wenliang
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Sometime in December 2019, Dr. Li Wenliang decided he must act. His clinic in the Hubei Province capital, Wuhan, had too many patients with viral pneumonia symptoms. In a private online chat, he warned a few other doctors that analysis indicated a “SARS coronavirus.” The SARS epidemic erupted in 2002 and still embarrasses Beijing.

Austin Bay
Austin Bay
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Austin Bay is a colonel (ret.) in the U.S. Army Reserve, author, syndicated columnist, and teacher of strategy and strategic theory at the University of Texas–Austin. His latest book is “Cocktails from Hell: Five Wars Shaping the 21st Century.”
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