Commentary It was rumored that top Chinese security official Dong Jingwei defected to the United States earlier this year and this has received a lot of media attention. Various media outlets reported that he gave U.S. intelligence top-secret documents, including information on the origin of COVID-19. As a result, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) considers Dong a traitor and this incident prompted Xi Jinping to call on all CCP members to retake the loyalty oath and pledge their allegiance to the Party. Beijing’s top watchdog agency, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, published an article on June 19 titled, “Never Betraying the Party Is More than Just an Oath.” The article specifically referred to Notice No.223 of “Perpetual Expulsion of Gu Shunzhang from the Party” by the CCP Central Committee on May 21, 1931. It was to call on all Party members to fight against those who go against the CCP. …