www.zerohedge.com By Tyler Durden
China’s intelligence service conducted “large scale espionage operations” against the UK – accessing classified government computer systems for over a decade – a senior British government official told prosecutors in a case against two Brits allegedly involved – which collapsed in court.
And why did said case collapse? Because the left-wing Labour government failed to refer to China as a threat to national security, so prosecutors could not produce evidence to bolster that claim, the UK’s director of public prosecutions – as well as opposition conservatives who say Labour has been “too weak to stand up to Beijing on a crucial matter of national security.”
Starmer has been criticized by conservative politicians for pursuing a thaw in relations with Beijing, despite a mountain of evidence that China is behind various cyber-attacks and espionage attacks in the UK. He also faces pressure from members of his own cabinet not to approve China’s new mega-embassy in London…
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