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THE Chinese foreign ministry has dismissed claims of an agent targeting British MPs, accusing the government of being “too obsessed with James Bond movies.”
MI5 claimed that London-based solicitor Christine Lee had been engaged in “political interference activities” on behalf of China’s ruling Communist Party.
Carlos Martinez, co-editor of the Friends of Socialist China platform and a No Cold War organising committee member, told the Star that the accusation “represents an escalation of the witch hunt against members of the Chinese diaspora in this country.”
The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER
In part II of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY explores how witch-hunting drives took hold in the Civil Service as the cold war emerged in the wake of WWII
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE