Duplicity, thy other name is Japanese policy

On Jan 29, The Sunday Times reported that the Japanese embassy in Britain had been paying ￡10,000 ($12,480) a month to Henry Jackson Society, a registered charity, to encourage British politicians and journalists to oppose China's foreign policy. One such opposition came from Britain's former foreign secretary Malcolm Rifkind. The headline of the article Rifkind purportedly authored for The Daily Telegraph in August read: "How China could switch off Britain's lights in a crisis if we let them build Hinkley C".

The Henry Jackson Society reportedly approached Rifkind with a prepared article, asking him to read and (if need be) amend it. The Daily Telegraph then published the article with Rifkind's permission.

Since the article was published before Britain gave the go-ahead to China and France to build the Hinckley Point C nuclear power plant, it raised public fears over "backdoor technologies" being introduced in a nuclear power plant.