By Jessica Frank-Keyes The government has issued sanctions and summoned the Chinese ambassador over state-affiliated cyber-attacks which spies could use to target UK-based dissidents. Beijing has been publicly blamed by senior ministers for targeting the UK Electoral Commission and running online “reconnaissance” into email accounts of MPs and peers. A front company, Wuhan Xiaoruizhi Science and Technology Company, and two individuals, Zhao Guangzong and Ni Gaobin, linked to the APT31 hacking group have been sanctioned over the cyber-attacks. And Chinese spies could even use data stolen from t…