"China’s intelligence agencies are now the world’s largest and dedicate themselves to protecting the Party’s interests while projecting its power abroad."

The following is excerpted from the introduction to Spies and Lies: How China’s Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the Worldby Alex Joske.

One April day in 2001, Lin Di sat before an exclusive audience in Washington, DC. His host, the former US government China expert Chas Freeman, gave only a brief introduction to the talk. Lin was well known to Freeman …