British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday published a senior official's evidence in the prosecution of two men charged with spying for China, seeking to demonstrate that the case did not collapse because of government manipulation. In an unexpected move last month, Britain's Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against two British men who had denied passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence agent.

The CPS said the case was dropped because it needed evidence showing that the UK considered China a threat to national security, but the government had not provided it after months of requests. While the newly published documents detailed Chinese malign activity, they did not unequivocally state that China posed a threat to UK national security.

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