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Last week, we reported on rumours that the Chinese Communist Party’s chief spy-catcher Dong Jingwei had defected to America, handing himself over to the Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), and divulging ‘terabytes’ worth of Chinese state secrets to the U.S.

While these rumours first appeared in conservative news media, the story soon went mainstream and global, with outlets like Newsweek, News.com.au, The Times of India and The Bolt Report covering the affair.

The most in-depth analysis to date has been provided by independent YouTube program Talking Points with David Zhang. A Chinese migrant to America, presenter David Zhang draws particular attention to the reactions of both the CCP and the Biden administration on the heels of the breaking story.

Zhang suggests that the CCP’s response has been “abnormal”, and that it is potentially “digging its own grave trying to clear the rumour”.

After the reports about Dong surfaced in early June, in an apparent attempt to dispel rumours of his defection, three Chinese news outlets claimed that the spy chief attended an event in China on June 18th. Unusually, they provided no photos of Dong’s attendance.

At the event, Dong allegedly spoke of China’s need to improve its counterspy operations to uncover moles inside the CCP — a rather coincidental topic, Zhang alleges — which may instead be the CCP’s attempt to “send [Dong] a message”.

Around the same time, Dong’s name, portrait and profile were removed from the CCP’s online directory, and his résumé and other details about him were blocked from the Chinese search engine Baidu.

Moreover, the same day the CCP-linked stories about Dong were released, President Xi Jinping had his cabinet take a tour of the CCP’s history museum, during which he led them to renew their oath of allegiance to the Chinese Communist Party. Contained in the oath are promises to “guard Party secrets”, “be loyal to the Party” and “never betray the Party”.

Talking Points concedes that all of this may prove to be a coincidence, but enough unusual activity has been detected from the CCP to suggest they have overreacted in an attempt to dispel rumours of the Dong defection.

Indeed, if Dong Jingwei were still in China, a less suspicious — and far more convincing — move on the part of the CCP would be to simply put Dong in front of television cameras.

In the U.S. meanwhile, Talking Points alleges that the sudden flip in the Biden administration’s stance on the Wuhan lab leak theory may be further evidence of Dong’s defection. Around the time the Dong affair first surfaced is also when both the White House and the national media changed their tune, conceding that COVID-19 may in fact have leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Previously, they had dismissed this hypotheses as a conspiracy theory.

Solomon Yue is a Republican National Committeeman. He claims to have a top-level source within the U.S. Defence Intelligence Agency confirming the Dong is within the agency’s protective custody. Last week, Yue tweeted out betting his committee position on Dong’s defection, offering to quit the role if he is wrong.

In recent days, Chinese officials have published an image reportedly of Dong attending a meeting of the Security Council Secretaries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Member States. However, the photo is blurry and has only sparked claims that the image has been photoshopped.