The UK government plans to tighten scrutiny of Chinese activity within its Foreign Influence Registration Scheme (FIRS) without placing Beijing in the same bracket as Moscow and Tehran, as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer seeks to deepen Sino-British relations.
Ministers have avoided including China with Russia and Iran in the enhanced tier of the scheme, which is designed to give the UK public greater assurance around the activities of foreign powers seen as posing a national security risk.
Officials are now drawing up plans, to be unveiled later this year, which are likely to involve placing only certain Chinese state-controlled entities linked to the most sensitive sectors in the enhanced tier, without including the entire Chinese state.
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