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A dossier of evidence from the security services showing that China was a threat to Britain’s national security was not passed to prosecutors in the China spying case after Labour came to power, according to former ministers
Former ministers have told The Times that the security services had prepared a dossier of evidence with “hundreds” of examples and case studies that proved China was a threat
The evidence detailed a “compilation of Chinese activity” and was used by the Home Office in an attempt to convince other Whitehall departments of the need to designate China a national security threat
The detail of the document remains classified but is understood to have included intelligence about Chinese digital and conventional espionage activities targeting Britain’s critical national infrastructure
This was in addition to “hundreds” of accounts of cyberattacks, theft of intellectual property, theft relating to critical infrastructure and secret police stations set up by Beijing to spy on Hong Kong dissidents in the UK. It also included information about bounties that had been placed on the dissidents’ heads
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