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20240208 Yang Hengjun and his wife Yuan Xiaoliang

This undated, file photo shows Yang Hengjun and his wife Yuan Xiaoliang. © Chongyi Feng/AP

HAMISH MCDONALD, Contributing writer

SYDNEY -- China's Ministry of State Security, with an estimated staff of 110,000, is perhaps the world's biggest intelligence service, but one of the least known to outsiders and certainly not imbued with popular espionage legends like its Western counterparts.

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