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MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research

Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service UK politics live – latest updates China’s intelligence service used a front company to pay grants to British universities and steal crucial research about…

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