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The espionage missions orchestrated by China, in Europe, have increased in recent years and this is shown by the numerous arrests of people suspected of being spies on behalf of China.
In the United Kingdom and Great Britain alone, 6 people suspected of being Chinese spies have been arrested this week.
Meanwhile, in early April, Sweden expelled a Chinese journalist who had lived in the country for two decades because he "represented a threat to national security."
But, for the British Foreign Minister, David Cameron, currently, relations between his country and China are positive and at a good level.
This week, while US Secretary of State Blinken was in China to meet Chinese President Xi, charges were made official in London against a parliamentary assistant and an academic already arrested last year.
They are Christopher Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32.
Cash, with a background in China as a member of the British Council and director of the Conservative think tank China Research Group, is the prime suspect as he was a parliamentary assistant to the two chairs of the Foreign Affairs Committee at Westminster, Tory MP Alicia Kearns , but also of his predecessor, the current undersecretary of the Interior with responsibility for national security, Tom Tugendhat.
The two deputies say they have absolutely no knowledge of what Cash and Berry are alleged to have done.
It is no coincidence that British intelligence has been repeating for months that "the most dangerous threat to long-term national security" is Beijing. Last autumn, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told his colleague Li Qiang that he had "deep concerns about Chinese interference in British democracy".
For months several universities, including the famous Cambridge, have been under the scrutiny of British authorities for some agreements with Chinese institutions, which the government says could represent a major risk of hostile infiltration.
For this reason, the Sunak government also announced a "vetting" program for anyone involved in high-risk programs who could be targets of spies./ La Repubblica
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