3 h. ago Trump reignites trade war with threat of additional 100% tariff on China

President says measures will include export controls on software and take effect from November 1 ‘or sooner’

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7 h. ago The Guardian view on an AI bubble: capitalism still hasn’t evolved to protect itself | Editorial

Warnings about inflated tech stocks suggest investors never learn and central bankers learn too lateThe message from global regulators this week was blunt: the AI boom is driving stocks to dotcom-bubble highs – and the world is finally listening. With so much cash riding on so few firms, any loss of faith could send shares tumbling and drag down the wider economy. China’s proposed export controls on rare earths add a fresh threat: not just to sentiment, but to advanced chip supply chains themselves. It’s a long way down from such dizzying heights if gravity reasserts itself.Warnings from the past abound in Charles Kindleberger’s history of financial crises, Manias, Panics and Crashes, which begins with tulip mania in 1636. What commonly happens, he wrote, is “that some event changes the economic outlook. New opportunities for profits are seized, and overdone.” Once the mistake is realised, there’s a panicked exit with a crash in the price of “whatever has been the subject of the man...

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8 h. ago UK stocks spooked by new Trump threat of fresh tariffs on China

The US President said ‘countermeasures’ were possible as part of a dispute over critical minerals.

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12 h. ago Keir Starmer 'had access to MI5 dossier showing China is a threat to Britain' before the collapse of spying case, claim Tories

Former ministers said the security services had prepared a dossier of evidence with 'hundreds' of examples and case studies that proved China was a threat.

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14 h. ago Foreign Secretary refuses to say if she saw dossier branding China a ‘threat’

The document could have been key to the collapsed trial of two men accused of spying for China.

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15 h. ago UK must work with China but there are ‘security threats', admits Foreign Secretary

Yvette Cooper on Friday declined to say whether she has seen a dossier outlining China as a threat to Britain's national security

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17 h. ago Spy case prosecutors weren’t given MI5 papers on China threat, claims ex

The case against two men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed last month

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26 h. ago Starmer’s team had access to ‘multiple’ papers showing China threat – Philp

The shadow home secretary claimed the Government could have handed the papers over to prosecutors, but they ‘chose not to’.

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30 h. ago Former top British official says China is a threat to UK national security

Mark Sedwill adds to pressure on Keir Starmer by saying he is ‘puzzled’ why a Chinese spy case collapsed

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30 h. ago UK’s terror law watchdog ‘investigating’ after collapse of China spy case

Jonathan Hall KC said China was a ‘threat to national security’ and the public deserved a better explanation of what happened with the prosecution.

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33 h. ago Former cabinet secretary ‘puzzled’ by China spy case collapse amid fresh questions over Starmer’s explanation

The former national security adviser and cabinet secretary said ‘of course’ China is a national security threat to Britain

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41 h. ago Former top civil servant questions Starmer over China spy trial collapse

Simon Case said intelligence chiefs have described China as a threat for years

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50 h. ago China sends horror WW3 threat of nuclear strike hitting in 20 minutes

Victor Gao, Vice President of the Centre for China and Globalisation, warned of "devastating consequences" should China come under attack and boasted of a long-range missile that can hit in minutes

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58 h. ago Legal experts question reasoning behind CPS dropping China ‘spies’ case

Ex-DPP Ken Macdonald says prosecutors may have been ‘over-fussy’ in seeking further assurances from governmentLegal experts have questioned the explanation given by the Crown Prosecution Service for its sudden decision to drop charges against two Britons accused of spying for China amid a political row over who was responsible.The expert lawyers expressed surprise that the CPS thought it needed further assurance from the government that China was an enemy insofar as it posed “a current threat to national security” before the trial of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry could go ahead. Continue reading...

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58 h. ago Collapse of China spy case shows ‘UK can be bullied’, says trial witness

Government failed to provide evidence China was a threat to national security

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64 h. ago UK prosecutor says a spying case collapsed because the government wouldn't call China a threat

England's chief prosecutor says the trial of two British men accused of spying for China collapsed because the government refused to label China a national security threat

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65 h. ago Spy case against Edinburgh man collapsed due to failure to label China a security threat

Prosecutors said they could not obtain evidence from the UK Government that China was a national security threat.

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3 d. ago Government refusal to brand China a threat led to spy trial collapse – DPP

The case against Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry was dropped on September 15.

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3 d. ago Spying case collapsed after UK refused to label China a ‘threat’, prosecutors say

Crown Prosecution Service had charged two Britons with espionage offences

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3 w. ago Trump makes stunning threat to NATO allies over oil as he calls for sweeping new tariffs

Trump took to Truth Social on Saturday morning to rebuke NATO allies for buying oil from Russia, despite their opposition to Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

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