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Espionage

Gordon Corera

The Chinese embassy is a red herring. Real spooks have eyes elsewhere

The row over the CCP’s new London base misses what MI5 already knows: concerns about spying go much further than tapped cables

Wed 21 Jan 2026

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Catherine Neilan
‘They lost their bottle’: why China spy case never reached courts

Sun 19 Oct 2025

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What to read to understand espionage

Thu 9 Oct 2025

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