MI5 issues spy alert to UK universities over Chinese front company stealing research
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What happened
Security service says academics should stop taking grants from and working with firm backed by China’s intelligence service MI5 China alert will send chill through UK’s cash-strapped universities China’s intelligence service used a front company to pay grants to British universities and steal crucial research about technology projects, MI5 said on Wednesday in a rare public espionage warning. Britain’s domestic secu…
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