{"id":74639,"date":"2025-10-08T03:48:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/07\/china-spies-case-was-dropped-after-government-failed-to-provide-evidence-of-beijing-threat"},"modified":"2025-10-08T03:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T18:48:01","slug":"china-spies-case-was-dropped-after-government-failed-to-provide-evidence-of-beijing-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74639","title":{"rendered":"China \u2018spies\u2019 case was dropped after government failed to provide evidence of Beijing threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers and officials did not provide statements that China was threat despite \u2018many months\u2019 of effort to obtain them<\/p>\n<p>Charges against two men accused of spying for China <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/15\/british-prosecutors-drop-case-against-two-men-accused-of-spying-for-china\">were suddenly dropped last month<\/a> because prosecutors could not obtain critical evidence from the government that Beijing represented a \u201cthreat to the national security of the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Parkinson, the director of public prosecutions, wrote to two select committee chairs to explain that despite trying over \u201cmany months\u201d, the sought-after statements were not forthcoming from ministers and officials.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/07\/china-spies-case-was-dropped-after-government-failed-to-provide-evidence-of-beijing-threat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers and officials did not provide statements that China was threat despite \u2018many months\u2019 of effort to obtain themCharges against two men accused of spying for China were suddenly dropped last month because prosecutors could not obtain critical ev&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,667,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-uk-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74640,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74639\/revisions\/74640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}