According to a report from The Telegraph newspaper, in 2020 the United Kingdom expelled three Chinese spies who were in the country on journalism visas.

Citing a UK government source, the report said the three expelled Chinese spies were intelligence officers for China’s Ministry of State Security who purportedly worked for three different Chinese media agencies.

“Their true identities were uncovered by MI5 and they have since been forced to return to China,” reads the report.

The development comes in the wake of Britain’s media regulator revoking the license for a Chinese TV broadcaster following an investigation that concluded that the Chinese Communist Party had ultimate editorial responsibility for the channel.

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