Keir Starmer during a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping of China at the G20 summit last month.

Ask the wrong question and you get the wrong answer.

In the days after Yang Tengbo was outed as an alleged Chinese agent it was asked again and again whether China was a threat to the UK.

To ask whether the Chinese Communist Party is a threat is to ignore the obvious: Beijing is a clear and urgent threat to our national security, our economic interests, and our values in the world. The right question is what should our response to the threat posed by Beijing be?

For those of us who have spent years campaigning for the Uyghur Muslims, Tibetan Buddhists or British Hong Kongers, as well as the sovereignty of Taiwanese people, it was galling to see that Beijing’s aggression only become headline news after a British royal had allegedly been targeted in the Chinese Communist Party’s espionage efforts.

The exposure of that alleged Chinese agent last month wasn’t new. It wasn’t even the only case involving alleged Chinese espionage before the British courts that week.

To act as if Prince Andrew was the first alleged victim of Beijing is to ignore the 126,000 British Hong Kongers who have had their life savings stolen, with the complicity of British banks. It would be to ignore........

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