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Helen Davidson in Taipei

‘Farcical’: China’s media gives short shrift to British spying allegations

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China’s Global Times said ‘in the US and the UK there are individuals or forces who specialise in sabotaging relations with China’. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty Images

The fallout from revelations that two people were arrested in the UK for allegedly spying for China has dominated British news since the story broke. In the heavily state-controlled media in China, however, it has caused barely a ripple.

It took more than a day for state-controlled press to run the story, reporting a short statement from its embassy in London and then comments from the foreign affairs ministry.

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