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U.S. authorities are investigating whether a Chinese company whose popular home-internet routers have been linked to cyberattacks poses a national-security risk and are considering banning the devices ...

U.S. authorities are investigating whether a Chinese company whose popular home-internet routers have been linked to cyberattacks poses a national-security risk and are considering banning the devices ...

With the 2024 elections behind us and power in D.C. determined, it’s time to turn our collective focus to the greatest external threat to the American way of life: Communist China.

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Exclusive: Despite calls for more scrutiny in light of Prince Andrew spy allegations, Starmer’s instinct is not to do anything to hamper growth
A review of UK-China relations has been delayed until after the chancellor makes her first trip to Beijing next month, the Guardian has learned, amid a row over an alleged spy who befriended Prince Andrew.
Rachel Reeves will travel to China in early January as part of a charm offensive by the Labour government. The trip will be focused on financial services, and Tulip Siddiq, the City minister, is expected to travel with the chancellor.

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Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, has announced that the scope of the compensation programme for victims of the Post Office scandal will be extended to cover earlier potential victims.
The government already has offering compensation to post officer operators who suffered because faulty Horizon IT software led to them being wrongly blamed for missing money. More than 900 people were prosecuted, more than 100 were jailed, but many more lost out because they were forced to repay money they were accused of losing or stealing, and/or because they lost their jobs.
A significant amount of time has also passed, and we recognise that this means that timescales are far greater, and the population of postmasters that used Capture will be more advanced in age, or a greater proportion of the population may have unfortunately died. We also recognise that the passage of time means that evidence of shortfalls and consequential losses, and evidence relating to suspensions, termination, prosecution, or convictions, will be far more difficult to find. It will therefore be difficult for claimants to corroborate their claims with contemporary evidence. Postmasters, the Post Office, or the UK government may not have enough evidence, and we may never find enough evidence to determine liability to the level that would be expected by the courts.
It is thanks to testimony of postmasters that this has been brought to light and failings have been discovered.
We must now work quickly to provide redress and justice to those who have suffered greatly after being wrongly accused.
We are considering the right form of redress for victims who have suffered.
This is a challenging exercise given the passage of time and the significant lack of records and evidence.
Cabinet Office minister Nick Thomas-Symonds said that those whose brothers or sisters were infected with potentially deadly viruses while receiving care should be fairly compensated.
He also announced in that the government “accepts in full or accepts in principle” all of the 12 recommendations made as part of the Infected Blood Inquiry.

Yang’s first firm was described as a tour operator; 17 years later he was in business with an adviser to Prince Andrew
During his time in the UK, Yang Tengbo created and operated a range of entities, interests and trade associations. The most intriguing is a company with a direct .
In 2005, three years after he moved to the UK, Yang set up his principal company, Hampton Group International. Originally called Newland UK, its earliest accounts describe it as a tour operator rather than any form of consultancy. It appears to have been a quiet success, with an annual turnover of £1m just five years into its operations.

The Duke of York has proved to be a scandal magnet. He is a problem, a royal problem: it’s time they owned it
No matter how much you try to digest the implications of the alleged Chinese spy scandal, some details are just comically indigestible. Take the fact that Prince Andrew has somehow contrived to find staff even stupider than him. Here is one senior aide called Dominic Hampshire, to the Chinese businessman with whom the Duke of York has found himself unfortunately entangled: “Outside of [Andrew’s] closest internal confidants, you sit at the very top of a tree that many, many people would like to be on.” Sorry, is this March 2020? A full four months after the four-dimensional pile-up that was Andrew’s Newsnight interview? Which was followed immediately by the duke’s own mother sacking him? Dominic, there were ventilators that people would rather have been on than that tree.
Or take the fact that the rural Buckinghamshire pub where David Cameron took the Chinese president Xi Jinping for a pint in 2015 was bought by a Chinese firm called SinoFortune, which seems to have that never materialised.
Marina Hyde is a Guardian columnist
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MI5 acted lawfully when it issued ‘interference alert’ about Christine Lee in January 2022, tribunal rules
A lawyer who was accused of improperly trying to influence MPs and peers on behalf of China has lost a legal challenge against MI5, who said nearly three years ago that she was trying to interfere in the British democratic processs.
The investigatory powers tribunal ruled the spy agency had acted lawfully when it issued an “interference alert” in January 2022 about Christine Lee, a lawyer it accused of having “knowingly engaged in political interference activities” on behalf of Beijing.