Britain is now so deeply entangled in Chinese influence that the government won’t even label the country a “threat” — even if doing so risks undermining the prosecution of two parliamentary researchers accused of spying for Beijing. To understand how we reached this point, we must go back to 2012, when Xi Jinping consolidated supreme power in China. At the time, China’s economy was booming, and the British government was eager to benefit from this growth while hoping Xi would steer the country