GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming will warn China is seeking to use digital currencies and satellite systems to tighten its domestic grip and spread influence abroad.
- UK spy chief: Britain must invest more to counter China’s tech dominance GCHQ Director Jeremy Fleming will warn China is seeking to use digital currencies and satellite systems to tighten its domestic grip and spread influence abroad.
- The U.K. must continue to spend big on national security technologies such as quantum computing in order to resist Chinese dominance, a British spy chief said.
- In a speech to be delivered Tuesday, GCHQ’s Director Jeremy Fleming will warn the Chinese Communist Party is seeking to use technologies such as digital currencies and satellite systems to tighten its domestic grip and spread influence abroad.
- “Technology has become not just an area for opportunity, for competition and collaboration — it’s a battleground for control, values and influence,” Fleming will say, according to an advanced copy of his speech at the RUSI think tank which has been shared with journalists. “
- Without the collective action of like-minded allies, the divergent values of the Chinese state will be exported through technology.”
- He will also warn that “the hand of the Chinese state” can be detected in failed attempts by Chinese industry to put in place new intellectual property standards.
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Opinion: Trying to contend China will not help UK, making China a partner will profit UK in the long term.
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Chinese population and ideology will make it difficult to contend with China.
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The west should look at this point and find better way of relating with China instead of trying to contend with them
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