A small boxed article in the Nikkei reveals that MI5 has warned of Chinese spies posing as corporate headhunters to approach UK parliamentary figures. The key point is that individuals with access to classified government information are being targeted—an issue directly relevant to Japan, where most Diet members, including the Constitutional Democratic Party and elements within the LDP, also hold such access. True newspaper reading lies in analyzing these overlooked corner articles, not in the simplistic front-page stories.

Today’s Nikkei newspaper, page 15, International section 2, carried a very small article in the lower right corner.
I always say this, but newspapers—especially the Nikkei—hide the truth in their small boxed articles.
“UK Warns of Chinese Spy Approaches.”
London — Kyodo.
MI5, the domestic intelligence agency responsible for intelligence collection in the UK, warned on the 18th that Chinese spies were attempting to approach British parliamentary figures by posing as corporate headhunters.
The real issue lies here.
They are targeting individuals who have access to government and parliamentary classified information.
The British government announced the same day that it would strengthen measures against espionage activities.
Individuals who have access to government and parliamentary classified information… Japanese Diet members can almost all be said to have such access.
In other words, it is not an exaggeration to say that all members of the Constitutional Democratic Party, beginning with Okada, are effectively Chinese spies.
Alternatively, the Liberal Democratic Party members known as the “Bicchū faction” may also be considered Chinese spies without exaggeration.
This small article reveals precisely that.
What does it mean to “read a newspaper”?
It means reading these kinds of articles.
Front-page articles are for people at the level of elementary school children—kindergarteners, even. Not an exaggeration.