China launches campaign to teach students how to catch foreign spies
it will be between the Canadian government and its attitude towards the Punjab government, rather than the Centre, as Sajjan made it a point of repeatedly praising the Modi government’s actions.
As a coda to his remarks, Sajjan said, “I look forward to future visits and moving that cooperation further.” Both nations will hope that if and when such a visit occurs, it will prove far tamer than the one of April 2017.
Chinese schools and colleges will train students how to spot and catch foreign spies through easy-to-read books and ready reckoners on anti-espionage in a new Communist Party of China campaign that’s expected to spread its net nationwide this year.
The books to be distributed among primary, middle school and senior college students will have graphics, comics and games like “find the spy”. On April 15, China marked the country’s second National Security Education Day and the first set of readers on how to spot a spy was published in eastern China’s Jiangsu province. “The books use easy-to-read language and comics to spread knowledge about national security, the threat apparently posed by spies and how to spot potential terror threats,” the tabloid Global Times said in a report.
“Students from primary schools to colleges were specifically targeted by this publicity drive to mobilise them as a huge counter-spy force,” the report said about the aim of the countrywide publicity events held to mark the day.
It seems the government’s thinking is that even primary school students should be aware of the “complicated” world situation. The publishing house told the newspaper that the books will be used “on a large scale from this year on.”