CHANGED MY HAIRSTYLE, SO MANY TIMES NOW, DON’T KNOW WHAT I LOOK LIKE: The moment a Chinese spy decided to defect to Australia: Staring at his own face in a false passport triggered something in Wang Liqiang. After five years as a Chinese spy he was at risk of losing himself. So he decided to defect to Australia.

But there’s something going on. Chinese spies are being found out, abroad and in the United States, in surprising numbers. That means there are even more of them out and about, of course. But for the Chinese, it raises the question of how many we knew about before, and how many we fed bogus information to.