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The market sell-off may have cooled, but tensions are still heating up between the United States and China.

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: The collapse of a spying case ahead of the trial is not just an embarrassment for Keir Starmer, it is a reminder that his government must strike a more effective balance in its approach to Beijing – by protecting national security without compromising diplomatic and economic…

Tom Tugendhat suggested that if ‘the bureaucrats are in charge of everything’, then the UK ‘isn’t a democracy any more’.

The newly released witness statements in the China spying case involving Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry shed light on UK-China relations

Statements are at heart of row about who, if anyone, was to blame for collapse of case against two men accused of spying

Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry were alleged to have passed information to an intelligence agent.

Downing Street says had Starmer intervened he would have been interfering in a case related to a previous government

In the statements, deputy national security adviser Matt Collins called China ‘the biggest state-based threat to the UK’s economic security’

Economist Peter Schiff pushed back against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s comments on U.S.-China trade, saying that Beijing's decision to reduce its reliance on American markets will strengthen, not weaken, its economy.