'Spies are everywhere': How China wants 'whole of society' to help check espionage

Written By Vivian Wang Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naà¯ve students. And it wants its people to see them, too. Chinese universities require faculty to take courses on protecting state secrets, even in departments like veterinary medicine. A kindergarten in the eastern city of Tianjin organized a meeting to teach staffers how to "understand and use" China's anti-espionage law. China's Ministry of State Security, a usually covert department that oversees the secret police and intelligence services, has even opened its first social media account, as part of what official…