China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them

From a New York Times story by Vivian Wang headlined “China to Its People: Spies Are Everywhere, Help Us Catch Them”:

Beijing sees forces bent on weakening it everywhere: embedded in multinational companies, infiltrating social media, circling naïve 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.