The British media reported that three Chinese spies posing as journalists were found in the UK in the past year, and they were repatriated to China after their identities were revealed by the British intelligence and security unit (MI5), to which the Chinese Foreign Ministry responded that it had “never heard of such a situation”, and criticized “the British side’s unreasonable The Chinese foreign ministry responded that it had not heard of the case, and that the British side was “unjustifiably suppressing Chinese media.
The report in the Daily Telegraph was quoted by international media, including AFP, as saying that three Chinese spies posing as media professionals had been found in the UK over the past year, and that the names of the three Chinese media outlets were not revealed in the report.
The report said an unnamed government source said the three people, who were alleged to be intelligence officers from China’s Ministry of State Security, had all entered the U.K. within the past year and claimed to be working for different Chinese media organizations, and had all been repatriated to China after their identities were revealed by MI5.
The Daily Telegraph reporter asked spokesman Wang Wenbin about the issue at a press conference at the Chinese Foreign Ministry on the evening of May 5, and said he had unsuccessfully asked the Chinese Embassy in the UK; Wang Wenbin first played dumb and said, “I haven’t heard of the situation you mentioned,” and then turned around and said, “Chinese journalists in the UK abide by local laws to report. The Chinese journalists in the UK have complied with the local laws in covering the story, but the British side has carried out unreasonable political suppression of the Chinese media out of ideological bias”.
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