Sunak under 圧力 to take tougher line with 中国 after 申し立てられた/疑わしい 秘かに調査する 逮捕(する)

Rishi Sunak is under fresh 圧力 to 指定する 中国 a 脅し to 国家の 安全 after a 議会の 研究員 was 逮捕(する)d on 疑惑 of 秘かに調査するing for Beijing.

The 逮捕(する) under the 公式の/役人 Secrets 行為/法令/行動する led to the 総理大臣 直面するing Chinese 首相 Li Qiang at the G20 首脳会議 in India on Sunday over “容認できない” 干渉,妨害 in 僕主主義.

But 中国 “強硬派s” on the Tory (法廷の)裁判s have used the 出来事/事件 to step up calls for a tougher 返答 to Beijing.

The 研究員 at the centre of the 列/漕ぐ/騒動, who had links with 上級の Tories 含むing 安全 大臣 Tom Tugendhat and Foreign 事件/事情/状勢s 委員会 議長,司会を務める Alicia Kearns, was 逮捕(する)d 支援する in March ? but this went 公表されていない until Saturday.

Home 長官 Suella Braverman and Mr Tugendhat are 押し進めるing for 中国 to be relabelled as a 脅し to Britain’s safety and 利益/興味s under new 国家の 安全 法律s, the Times 報告(する)/憶測d.

Anyone working “at the direction” of 中国 or a 明言する/公表する-linked 会社/堅い would have to 登録(する) and 公表する/暴露する their activities or 危険 刑務所,拘置所 under the 計画(する)s to put the country on the “高めるd” tier of the 国家の 安全 行為/法令/行動する.

During the Tory leadership contest last year, Mr Sunak 述べるd 中国 as the “biggest long-称する,呼ぶ/期間/用語 脅し to Britain” but 公式の/役人 language used since he took office has been softer, with the 統合するd review of foreign and defence 政策 calling it an “時代-defining challenge”.

商売/仕事 長官 Kemi Badenoch 示唆するd that 指定するing 中国 a 脅し would “増大する things” with Beijing.

She told BBC 無線で通信する 4’s Today: “中国 is the second largest economy in the world, it’s ひどく 統合するd in our economy as it is with many of our 同盟(する)s… We’re taking the same approach that those countries are taking.”

Ms?Badenoch?said the UK was taking 確かな 対策 含むing making sure it has proper 投資 審査.

“We are taking 活動/戦闘, what we’re not doing is giving endless running commentary on that because that would 現実に be more helpful to 中国 than it would be to our 安全 services,” she said.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the former party leader who has been 許可/制裁d by 中国, was の中で Tories 圧力(をかける)ing the 総理大臣 to 強化する his language に向かって Beijing.

He 攻撃する,衝突する out at the “weak” position of not labelling Chi na a 脅し, telling the PA news 機関: “The result is that 中国 is 侵入するing all our 会・原則s from universities to 議会.

Tom Tugendhat is said not to have had any contact with the arrested researcher since before he became security minister last September (Danny Lawson/PA)

Tom Tugendhat is said not to have had any 接触する with the 逮捕(する)d 研究員 since before he became 安全 大臣 last September (Danny Lawson/PA)

“Time to speak through strength not 証拠不十分.”

Tory backbencher and Home 事件/事情/状勢s Select 委員会 member Tim Loughton said he had written to the ありふれたs (衆議院の)議長 along with 同僚s asking for an 緊急の question about the circumstances surrounding the 逮捕(する).

The MP, who has also been 許可/制裁d by Beijing, told Times 無線で通信する: “It really is not remotely appropriate that those of us most in the 解雇する/砲火/射撃ing line, 存在 許可/制裁d by 中国 under 脅し by 中国, have not been given some 要点説明 about 正確に/まさに what’s happened.”

Mr Sunak 特記する/引用するd his 対決 with Mr Li in New Delhi as an example of the 利益s of his 政策 of 約束/交戦 rather than “carping from the sid elines”.

The 総理大臣 said he raised his “very strong 関心s about any 干渉,妨害 in our 議会の 僕主主義, which is 明白に 容認できない”.

One of the 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うs, a man in his 30s, was 拘留するd in Oxfordshire on March 13, while the other, in his 20s, was 逮捕(する)d in Edinburgh, Scotland Yard said. Searches were also carried out in an east London 所有物/資産/財産.

Both were held on 疑惑 of offences under Section 1 of the 公式の/役人 Secrets 行為/法令/行動する 1911, which punishes offences that are said to be “prejudicial to the safety or 利益/興味s of the 明言する/公表する”.

They were 保釈(金)d until 早期に October.

中国 攻撃する,衝突する out at the 逮捕(する)s and (人命などを)奪う,主張するd the 状況/情勢 was a “political farce”.

A 広報担当者 for 中国’s 大使館 in London said: “The (人命などを)奪う,主張する that 中国 is 嫌疑者,容疑者/疑うd of ‘stealing British 知能’ is 完全に 捏造する,製作するd and nothing but malicious 名誉き損,中傷.

“We 堅固に …に反対する it and 勧める 関連した parties in the UK to stop their anti-中国 political 巧みな操作 and stop putting on such self-行う/開催する/段階d political farce.”

Former 長,率いる of MI6 Sir Alex Younger said co-操作/手術 with 中国 is necessary but “just 存在 nice to them doesn’t get you very far”.

He told Today: “中国 is a fact, it’s a 抱擁する country, we’ve got to find ways of engaging with it, and find ways of 協力するing with it in important areas like 気候 change, and いつかs we have to be 絶対 用意が出来ている to 直面する it when we believe that our 安全 利益/興味s are 脅すd.”

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