{"id":137849,"date":"2025-10-06T17:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137849"},"modified":"2025-10-06T17:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T17:37:50","slug":"british-government-says-it-was-not-to-blame-for-collapse-of-china-spy-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=137849","title":{"rendered":"British government says it was not to blame for collapse of China spy trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe British government said on Monday it was not to blame for the collapse of a trial of two men accused of spying for China, saying it was a decision made by prosecutors who relied on language used by the previous government in its China policy.<br \/>\nIn an unexpected move, British prosecutors last month dropped charges of spying for China against two men just weeks before they were set to go on trial.<br \/>\nThe men, Christopher Cash, 30, a former director of the China Research Group think tank, and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/europe\/article\/3328053\/british-government-says-it-was-not-blame-collapse-china-spy-trial?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostThe British government said on Monday it was not to blame for the collapse of a trial of two men accused of spying for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137849"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=137849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}