The media learned about the threats of the United States of Great Britain to stop the exchange of intelligence

The White House has warned British Prime Minister Keir Starmer that failure to prosecute two suspected "Chinese" spies could undermine the "special relationship" between Britain and the United States and threaten intelligence sharing. This was reported on October 11 by The Sanday Times newspaper, citing a source.

According to the newspaper, the President of the United States, Donald Trump, questioned London's reliability in security matters after charges against two Britons — former parliamentary researcher Chris Cash and academic Christopher Berry — were dropped.

Cash and Berry were charged in April 2024 following an investigation by Scotland Yard's counterterrorism staff. The charges related to receiving, collecting, recording, publishing or transmitting notes, documents or information that may be directly or indirectly useful to the "enemy," the material says. As indicated, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) claimed that a foreign intelligence agent had ordered at least 34 reports from Berry on topics of political interest, ten of which were considered detrimental to Britain's national security.

It is clarified that the case was closed after the government failed to provide evidence of a threat to national security from the PRC.

A senior official in the administration of the American leader told The Sunday Times that the United States has long warned its allies about the alleged threat to joint security from China, starting in 2017, when Trump was elected to his first presidential term. The source added that Washington is extremely careful about sharing information with foreign governments, which may be influenced and coerced by opponents, especially in jurisdictions where "enemies act with impunity."

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Earlier, on October 5, the Financial Times newspaper wrote that the Royal Prosecutor's Office of Great Britain dropped charges against two citizens of the country who transmitted confidential information to China because the authorities did not want to spoil diplomatic relations with China. During the trial, Starmer's national security adviser Matthew Collins refused to recognize China as an enemy. This was the reason why the case collapsed.

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