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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots of Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Cindy Yu and James Hill. Now, the alleged Chinese spy has been named Yang Tangbo. Cindy, update us with the latest developments in this story that's been bubbling away since last week. So, curiously, it was actually Young's own lawyers who requested that his anonymity be lifted.

And the reason for that is because there was so much speculation about his identity anyway.

It had been revealed by foreign media.

And MP, such as Ian Duncan Smith, were threatening to use parliamentary privilege to name him anyway.

So they voluntarily said, I have nothing to hide, this is who I am, and came out fighting with some fighting words saying that none of these allegations are true,

essentially. At the same time, though, I think what it has done is reignite the debate over the

foreign influence registration scheme that had come into place under the National Security Act

of last year.

So people, you know, classic China hawks like IDS, like Tom Tugina are now kind of back on the

front line fighting that course, talking about how to make China promoting it into the enhanced

tier of that, which would basically mean that anyone in the UK taking orders doing business

with or to basically taking instruction

from Chinese government or government affiliated bodies would have to declare their activity.

So that's a very kind of severe level of registration that you have to do.

And so some business groups have been opposed to that.

But it's fascinating development in terms of reign-igniting the debate on China and actually

makes it very, very tricky for the Labour government because they have put first the scheme

on ice while they figure out what to do about China. So it's another big hot potato for them.

And I think two different debates have been opened up by this, one of which is about Labor

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