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Spies and Lies: How China's Greatest Covert Operations Fooled the World -- Alex Joske, Paperback Frank Kern and a thick groove takeSpies and Lies by Alex Joske is a ground breaking expos of elite influence operations by China's little known Ministry of State Security. Revealing for the first time how the Chinese Communist Party has tasked its spies to deceive the world, it challenges the conventional account of China's past, present and future. Mere years ago, Western governments chose to cooperate with China in the hope that it would liberalize, setting aside concerns about