Chinese spy Dong Jingwei ‘defects to the West while offering Covid secrets’

This story has been developing for a few days even though it appears he disappeared in February. \\Rumours are swirling that Mr Dong has passed on important information about the Wuhan Institute of Virology, at the centre of the covid lab leak theory which had been dismissed as a “conspiracy” by many for the last year-and-a-half but is now being reignited.

And that's just it, rumors. But if his defection is true, and if the timing is accurate, it would inject an interesting perspective on the western shift to a more accommodating stance on the possibility of a lab leak.