Do we really have any state secrets worth stealing? I somehow doubt it.
Our Prime Minister may have misled Parliament and so on but the idea that we have top secret intelligence the Chinese are desperate to acquire seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Yes, they nick all our innovations and then reproduce them much more cheaply (a friend is seriously tempted by a Land Rover clone at half the price of the British-made vehicle).
But once a product is on the open market, it’s difficult to stop competitors fashioning their own cut-price versions which may, or may not, be inferior to the original.
But, serious though industrial espionage may be, that’s not the issue with the collapsed trial.
It just seems unlikely there’s anything much the Chinese or any other not-enemies might covertly glean that would somehow undermine our country and our way of life.
That’s happening already without any help from China or other not-enemies of the state.
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