Paul Monk
Biography
Publications
Paul Monk (www.paulmonk.com.au) was head of the China desk in the Defence Intelligence Organisation (DIO) in 1994-95 and is the author of Thunder From the Silent Zone: Rethinking China (Scribe, 2005) and Dictators and Dangerous Ideas: Uncensored Reflections in an Era of Turmoil (Echo Books, 2018) among other books.
The Wang Liqiang case in Cold War perspective
We should encourage defectors from Chinese intelligence services, even if the bona fides in this case are not yet clear.