Putin Warned China's Xi About Spies Among Top Ranks, Report Says
President Vladimir Putin of Russia sent a top diplomat to Beijing this past summer in order to deliver a warning to Chinese leader Xi Jinping about Western moles in his senior cabinet, Politico reported on Wednesday.
Andrey Rudenko, No. 2 at the Russian Foreign Ministry, told Xi that China's former foreign minister, Qin Gang, along with top officers in the country's military leadership, had been compromised by Western intelligence agencies, according to the report.