Confronting China’s tech ambitions is “the national security issue that will define our future,” U.K. spy chief Jeremy Fleming said Tuesday
Confronting Beijing’s technological ambitions is ‘the national security issue that will define our future,’ Jeremy Fleming says
Huawei is losing its edge in the smartphone business as the Chinese tech giant copes with a global chip shortage as well as U.S. sanctions. Photo: AFP via Getty Images LONDON—Beijing’s efforts to exert control over technology both internationally and within China’s borders threaten future global security and freedom, the chief of the U.K.’s electronic intelligence agency said.
Jeremy Fleming, the director of Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters, said Beijing was aiming to use an array of existing and emerging technological means, and satellites, to control markets and people, extend surveillance and censorship and export its authoritarian system around the world.
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