{"id":77276,"date":"2026-05-08T18:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/08\/hong-kong-dissident-nathan-law-china-spies-spying-uk"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T09:00:41","slug":"hong-kong-dissident-nathan-law-on-china-spies-in-uk-were-not-surprised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=77276","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong dissident Nathan Law on China spies in UK: \u2018We\u2019re not surprised\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Law says conviction of two men for spying raises serious concerns about how they accessed sensitive information<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Law, an exiled leader of the Hong Kong student protest who lives with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/04\/exiled-hong-kong-activists-in-uk-defiant-about-hk1m-bounties-for-their-arrest\">\u00a3100,000 bounty<\/a> on his head from the Chinese authorities, was not surprised to discover a spy ring had photographed him entering the Oxford Union for an evening debate in November 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/may\/07\/two-men-guilty-spying-for-china-uk-wai-yuen\">conviction at the Old Bailey<\/a> of Chi Leung \u201cPeter\u201d Wai, 38, and Chung Biu \u201cBill\u201d Yuen, 65, for assisting a foreign intelligence service, was a sobering first \u2013 no Chinese spies had been convicted in British criminal history before Thursday \u2013 but the details that came out in the nine-week trial mainly served to confirm his suspicions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/may\/08\/hong-kong-dissident-nathan-law-china-spies-spying-uk\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Law says conviction of two men for spying raises serious concerns about how they accessed sensitive informationNathan Law, an exiled leader of the Hong Kong student protest who lives with a \u00a3100,000 bounty on his head from the Chinese authorities, was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3457,"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":[41,50,667,48,80,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-espionage","category-hong-kong","category-protest","category-world-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\/77276","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\/3457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77277,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77276\/revisions\/77277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}