The attempted defection of one of China's diplomats in Australia has sparked off a media frenzy and Beijing is preparing for further embarrassing 'revelations' about its intelligence activities. Chen Yonglin, until recently a consular official at the Chinese consulate in Sydney, decided to go public with a claim that Beijing has "up to 1,000 spies" operating in Australia and has used its network of agents to "kidnap" Chinese dissidents in the country with the aim of returning them to China.
Stolen from Jane's (here).
Oh my. 1000 spionen, eh?
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