{"id":75234,"date":"2025-11-18T23:49:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T14:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/mi5-issues-alert-to-mps-and-peers-over-chinese-espionage"},"modified":"2025-11-19T04:25:58","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T19:25:58","slug":"mi5-names-two-people-in-alert-to-mps-and-peers-about-chinese-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75234","title":{"rendered":"China in \u2018covert and calculated\u2019 effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Jarvis gives Commons statement after MI5 alert about LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen<\/p>\n<p>MPs and peers have been told they face \u201ca covert and calculated\u201d attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.<\/p>\n<p>After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain \u201cnon-public and insider insights\u201d, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those \u201cwith access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/18\/mi5-issues-alert-to-mps-and-peers-over-chinese-espionage\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dan Jarvis gives Commons statement after MI5 alert about LinkedIn profiles of Amanda Qiu and Shirly ShenMPs and peers have been told they face \u201ca covert and calculated\u201d attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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":[50,667,1832,1831,1345,4,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-house-of-commons","category-house-of-lords","category-mi5","category-politics","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75234","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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75237,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75234\/revisions\/75237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}