Dennis Wilder, who was senior China director at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration and a former senior intelligence officer, describes how when he traveled to Beijing, a woman would often be waiting in the elevator for him when he returned to his hotel.

“She’d say, ‘You know, I can come to your room.’ And I’d say, ‘Well why do you want to come to my room?’ And they did this over and over again to see if they could get me,” he said...

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