TOM EATON | I spy with my little eye something beginning with C ... China? Codswallop?

If China were to spy on us, what on Earth would they be after, besides learning how not to run a country?

02 September 2021 - 20:23

Since SA’s intelligence agency “leaked” a super-secret report by apparently handing it to News24, claiming that ANC MP Xiaomei Havard is spying for China, journalists have been questioning the provenance of the report and wondering how Havard became an MP in the first place. Nobody, however, seems to be asking the obvious: why on earth would China need to spy on us?..

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