CCP-Backed Spies Present Threat to UK Every Day: MI5

The UK has seen a 35 percent increase in state threat investigations in the past year, the MI5 director said.

Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, delivers the annual director general's speech at the Counter Terrorism Operations Centre in London, on Oct. 8, 2024. Yui Mok/PA via AP

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum said on Oct. 16 that the agency stopped a Chinese threat just last week. The remarks to reporters came after he gave a speech at MI5 headquarters in London about “fast-rising” foreign state threats.

“We’ve intervened operationally again just in the last week,” he said, according to Bloomberg.