UK accuses China of cyber malice against parliamentarians. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refuses to describe Beijing as a “threat’ Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden confirms two cyberattacks from China.

Iain Duncan Smith, a Conservative MP himself targeted by Beijing, asks why two? The United States has sanctioned more than 40 people in Hong Kong alone, and we have zero! We must change our foreign policy, says Pat McFadden, an opposition MP. For its part, China nevertheless denounces slander.