The United Kingdom government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer has allowed two suspected Chinese intelligence agents to escape punishment by refusing to identify China as an enemy.

Espionage charges against two Britons, Christopher Cash (aged 30) and Christopher Berry (aged 33), were dropped last month following a failure by Starmer’s government to identify China as a threat to national security when the two men’s offenses were said to have been committed between December 2021 and February 2023. Numerous U.S. and U.K. sources have told the Washington Examiner that there is highly compelling evidence to suggest that Cash and Berry operated as a clandestine cell designed to procure and then transmit sensitive U.K. government information to Beijing.