The biggest global story this week was the arrest of a British parliamentary researcher on suspicion of spying for the Peoples Republic of China.
China has since dismissed the accusations as “groundless.”
Early this year China was accused of flying a spying balloon over sensitive security sites of the United States.
The United States deployed fighter jets to shoot the balloon down.
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