MI6 chief thanks China for ‘free publicity’ after James Bond spoof

The head of MI6 has thanked China’s state news agency for “free publicity” after it posted a James Bond spoof video in response to a statement he made last year that Beijing was the spy agency’s “single greatest priority”. Richard Moore, codenamed C, intervened after Xinhua released an extraordinary four-minute English-language video featuring a pair of supposed British spies, James Pond and an apparent Marvel universe recruit, Black Window. Xinhua said the video, entitled No Time to Die Laughing, was leaked footage of a secret meeting between the British spies…