Across the globe, spies gather in inconspicuous dens to meet contacts and hold discreet conversations. This week, Intelligence Online pulled up a chair at Le Meilleur, an Asian restaurant that was packed with hungry Chinese security officers during Xi Jinping's visit to France this week.
On the morning of 8 May, Le Meilleur, the Asian delicatessen in Paris's 7th arrondissement, just a stone's throw from the Chinese Embassy, began to see its number of customers drastically fall. This followed on from three days of unprecedentedly high numbers of peckish people seeking tasty dishes at this petit eatery that has just a few tables available for dining at.
As early as the weekend before President Xi Jinping's arrival in France on 5 May, dozens of security officers from the Chinese administration,
