The WeChat Official Account of the Ministry of National Security at 1600 hrs on June 18, 2021 said, "It is necessary to catch spies as well as "traitors" and "behind the scenes" and this was repeated by the

"Central Political and Legal Committee Chang An Jian" WeChat official account the same day. In the morning of the same day, Dong Jingwei, Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Security, who reports claim defected to the US along with his daughter on February 10, was reported by the Paper (June 18) to have hosted a symposium to study and implement the "Anti-espionage Security Prevention Work" that was implemented on April 26 this year.