Parliamentary aide Chris Cash to be charged with spying for China
The parliamentary aide accused of passing secrets and techniques to Beijing is to be charged below the Official Secrets Act alongside with one other British man who additionally taught in China, The Times has learnt.
Chris Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, will seem at Westminster magistrates’ courtroom on Friday to face fees of offering prejudicial data to a international state.
Cash is the previous director of an influential China coverage group and beforehand taught English in Hangzhou, in japanese China close to Shanghai.
Berry, from Witney in Oxfordshire, beforehand taught economics and English within the area. In a YouTube video posted on-line two years in the past, Berry extols the virtues of Zhejiang province’s picturesque lake. On an internet weblog Berry, who now works in digital advertising and marketing, described a typical