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China’s Tech Aims Are a Threat to Us All: UK Spy Chief – ABC

China regards other countries “as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced,” GCHQ head Jeremy Fleming said.


GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming had some harsh words to say about Beijing. File photo: Hannah McKay, via pool, Reuters.

 

The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency has accused China of using technology to exert control abroad, causing “a huge threat to us all,” ABC News reported, adding that underneath Beijing’s actions “is a sense of fear” that caused the communist regime to monitor its own citizens and restrict them from having free speech.

Director of Government Communications Headquarters Jeremy Fleming said China is using satellite systems and digital currencies to exert global influence and regards other countries “as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced,” the report said.

Read the full report: Abc News.

 

 

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Alfie Habershon

Alfie is a Reporter at Asia Financial. He previously lived in Mumbai reporting on India's economy and healthcare for data journalism initiative IndiaSpend, as well as having worked for London based Tortoise Media.