![]() He also said China is seeking to use digital currencies used by central banks to snoop on users' transactions and as a way of avoiding future international sanctions of the sort imposed on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.įleming argued that China's BeiDou satellite system - an alternative to the widely used GPS navigation technology - could contain "a powerful anti-satellite capability, with a doctrine of denying other nations access to space in the event of a conflict."įleming warned that the world is approaching a "sliding doors" moment in history - a reference to the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow film in which a woman's fate hinges on a seemingly trivial moment. In 2020, then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson followed the United States in banning Chinese tech firm Huawei as a security risk, ordering it to be stripped out of the U.K.'s 5G telecoms network by 2027.įleming warned that China is seeking to fragment the infrastructure of the internet to exert greater control. Last year the head of the MI6 overseas intelligence agency, Richard Moore, called China one of the biggest threats to Britain and its allies. officials accusing Beijing of economic subterfuge and human rights abuses.īritish spies have given increasingly negative assessments of Beijing's influence and intentions. Relations between Britain and China have grown increasingly frosty in recent years, with U.K. He argued that the one-party system in Beijing seeks to control China's population and sees other countries "as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced." Technology has become not just an area for opportunity, for competition and for collaboration, it's become a battleground for control, for values and for influence." "That's because it's changing the definition of national security into a much broader concept. "When it comes to technology, the politically motivated actions of the Chinese state is an increasingly urgent problem we must acknowledge and address," Fleming said. In a rare public speech to the Royal United Services Institute think tank, Fleming alleged that Beijing's communist authorities want to "gain strategic advantage by shaping the world's technology ecosystems." Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, said that despite war raging in Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Beijing's growing power is the "national security issue that will define our future." The head of Britain's cyber intelligence agency on Tuesday accused China of trying to "rewrite the rules of international security," saying Beijing is using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad. ![]()
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