For the first time ever, a former spy for China’s notorious secret police - one of the most powerful arms of the country’s intelligence apparatus - goes public, exposing the covert and illegal operations he was ordered to carry out on foreign soil and the dissidents he was tasked with tracking, including in Australia, Canada, India, Cambodia and Thailand.
In a major investigation reported by the ABC’s Echo Hui, the spy - who goes by the name Eric - comes out of the shadows at great danger to himself, revealing his face to expose how China has used its global network over the last two decades to surveil, silence and kidnap those its government and president Xi Jinping deems enemies of the state.
The spy divulges his double life and the secrets he’s been guarding. He reveals the inner workings of the secret police, including the companies they use as cover, who his targets were, and the tactics he used to hunt them down.
It raises tough questions about China’s global reach and Australia’s national security.
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Read more about Eric's story here: ab.co/4dFexeK
This episode was originally broadcast as ‘Ruthless Pursuit’ on 13 May 2024 on ABC TV and ABC iview.
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Note: In most cases, our captions are auto-generated.
00:00 - A spy speaks out
02:11 - The escape
04:21 - Investigating China's secret police
10:30 - Running from China
22:19 - An enemy of the state
30:15 - Secret international operations
40:45 - International law
42:43 - Security threat