‘For a better life’: CIA releases videos to lure disgruntled CCP officials to spy on China

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The CIA is on a recruitment drive for foreign spies. In their sights are Chinese officials and workers, who the US intelligence agency hopes to turn against Beijing via some newly released glossy videos. The two videos touch on probable anxieties among some inside the Communist party machine – getting stuck in a lowly job assisting an increasingly wealthy corrupt official, or becoming victim to the endless purges that have targeted millions of party members at all levels since Xi Jinping came to power. “As I rise within the party, I watch those above me being discarded like worn-out shoes,...