• October 23 2025
  London police arrest three men on suspicion of spying for Russia

  Metropolitan Police reports ‘increasing number’ of people recruited by foreign intelligence services

  
• October 20 2025
  Senior Tory MPs urge Keir Starmer to block China ‘mega’ embassy plans

  Alicia Kearns and Tom Tugendhat, who say they were spied on in parliament, call on prime minister to ‘protect’ national security

  
• October 20 2025
  US intelligence

  Netherlands curtails intelligence-sharing with US over ‘human rights’

  Dutch spy chiefs cite concerns about Trump administration’s ‘politicisation’ of services

  
• October 17 2025
  UK politics

  Dispute over court testimony was final straw in UK-China spy case

  Crown Prosecution Service kicked off political firestorm when it abandoned charges against two British men

  
• October 16 2025
  Cai Qi: Xi Jinping’s right-hand man drawn into UK’s China spy drama

  Political veteran mentioned in collapsed prosecution of two British men over espionage allegations

  
• October 16 2025
  Jan Marsalek’s grandfather spied for the communist bloc, new evidence shows

  Hans Marsalek’s grandson is the fugitive Wirecard fraudster who runs spies for Russia in western Europe

  
• October 16 2025
  China attacks UK efforts to ‘smear and defame’ it over spy case

  MI5 says Chinese ‘state actors’ regularly present threats to UK national security

  
• October 16 2025
  Testimony in China spy case ‘more than adequate’, says ex-CPS head

  Ken Macdonald argues that witness statements drafted for prosecution of two men were enough to be put before a jury

  
• October 15 2025
  Spy case witness statement reveals UK desire for ‘positive’ relationship with China

  Keir Starmer’s government is under pressure over charges being dropped against two British men

  
• October 13 2025
  Russia pays Europe’s saboteurs in crypto, says Polish official

  Warsaw’s national security chief says Moscow is also using a shadow fleet to launch drones into European airspace

  
• October 12 2025
  US will be ‘perplexed’ by UK decision to drop China spy case, says ex-MI6 boss

  John Sawers questions why prosecutors chose not to proceed with trial of two Britons accused of espionage

  
• October 9 2025
  News in-depth

  Former top British official says China is a threat to UK national security

  Mark Sedwill adds to pressure on Keir Starmer by saying he is ‘puzzled’ why a Chinese spy case collapsed

  
• October 8 2025
  Collapse of China spy case shows ‘UK can be bullied’, says trial witness

  Government failed to provide evidence China was a threat to national security

  
• October 7 2025
  Spying case collapsed after UK refused to label China a ‘threat’, prosecutors say

  Crown Prosecution Service had charged two Britons with espionage offences

  
• October 7 2025
  Explainer

  Did the UK prioritise trade over national security by dropping China spying case?

  Pressure grows on Starmer government to explain why prosecution of two Britons was abandoned

  
• October 7 2025
  EU to curb Russian diplomats’ travel as suspected spy attacks mount

  Intelligence agencies say sabotage operations are often led by spies posing as diplomats

  
• October 5 2025
  UK politics

  UK government undermined China spying probe to protect Beijing ties, say officials

  Prosecution case collapsed after senior security advisers said they would not testify that China was an ‘enemy’

  
• September 30 2025
  CPS must give ‘clear explanation’ after dropping alleged China spying case, say MPs

  Demand by chairs of two Commons committees comes after senior Tories call for probe into prosecutor’s handling of the case

  
• September 26 2025
  FT Investigations

  The Russian spy ship stalking Europe’s subsea cables

  Covert operations in waters surrounding the British Isles pose a grave threat to critical infrastructure and a fresh challenge to Nato

  
• September 18 2025
  UK police arrest three people on suspicion of spying for Russia

  Two men and a woman taken to London police station for questioning before being released on bail with conditions

  
• September 17 2025
  Top Tories call for probe into dropping of China spying case

  ‘Overwhelming parliamentary and public interest’ in an inquiry, Commons committee chairs told

  
• September 17 2025
  Chinese politics & policy

  China lifts exit ban on Wells Fargo banker

  US citizen Chenyue Mao had been restricted from leaving country under opaque measure for several months

  
• September 15 2025
  MPs protest as UK drops charges against 2 men accused of spying for China

  Prosecutors had filed charges last year for breaches of the Official Secrets Act

  
• August 11 2025
  Chris Miller

  China has its own concerns about Nvidia H20 chips

  Beijing’s investigation is a reminder that Trump isn’t the only leader with a habit of capricious decision making

  
• August 6 2025
  UK politics

  UK demands China explain redacted parts of London embassy plan

  Some drawings for the ‘mega’ project close to the Tower of London have blacked out sections

  

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