2023-09-11 21:19:21
Police confirmed they arrested two men in March on suspicion of spying for China in Westminster. Mattia Bicchi Photography/MattiaBicchi – stock.adobe.com
STORY – The British Prime Minister expressed his “very serious concern” about this type of interference.
Correspondent in London
The Chinese shadow hangs over the circles of British power. Police confirmed over the weekend that they arrested two men in March on suspicion of spying for China in Westminster. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak expressed his “deep concernto his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of the G20 summit. This case revives the debate on the posture to adopt vis-à-vis Beijing.
The police said they had “arrested two men on March 13 on suspicion of violating the Official Secrets Act“. The first, in his thirties, was arrested near Oxford; the other in Edinburgh. The latter was appointed by The Times. It would be Chris Cash, a young researcher of 28 years employed by Alicia Kearns, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons. He was very involved in an influential group on China issues, the China Research Group, co-founded by the Secretary of State for Security, Tom Tugendhat…
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