US spy chief says, China’s tech aims are a ‘threat to us all”

by Sara Floyd Hello

The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing China of clamping down at home and exerting control abroad using its economic and technological clout by saying that by fear and poses “a huge threat to us all Beijing’s aggressive stance is driven”.

Using technologies such as digital currencies and satellite systems to control China’s population and increase its influence around the world Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, says Beijing’s Communist authorities are seeking to “shape the global tech ecosystem”.

In a rare public speech later Tuesday to the Royal United Services Institute think tank. He will say that “underlying that belief is a sense of fear “as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced”, Fleming plans to say that the one-party system in Beijing seeks to control China’s population and sees other countries”.

According to extracts of the speech released in advance Fleming will say that “We’re seeing that fear play out through the manipulation of the technological ecosystems which influencing financial systems and new domains underpin our everyday lives from monitoring its own citizens and restricting free speech”.

With U.K. officials accusing Beijing of economic subterfuge and human rights abuses, relations between Britain and China have grown increasingly frosty in recent years.

Negative assessments of Beijing’s influence and intentions British spies have given increasingly. China is one of the biggest threats to Britain and its allies. Richard Moore called last year the head of the MI6 overseas intelligence agency.

To fragment the infrastructure of the internet too to exert greater control Fleming will warn that China is seeking. 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 he will also say.

“We can tilt that in our collective favour. I’m confident that together. Our future strategic technology advantage rests on what we as a community do next”.

Since 2017 Fleming has headed and has sought to bring the intelligence of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), cyber and security agency out of the shadows.

With a doctrine of denying other nations access to space in the event of a conflict Fleming also argues that China’s BeiDou satellite system, “a powerful anti-satellite capability”.

To partially evade the sort of international sanctions currently being applied to (President Vladimir) Putin’s regime in Russia Fleming is set to warn, a centralized digital currency could “enable China”.

He will accuse China of seeking as well as “those in their sphere of influence and of their own citizens to gain “control of the markets”.

A reference to the 1998 Gwyneth Paltrow film in which a woman’s fate hinges on a seemingly trivial moment, GCHQ said Fleming will warn that the world is approaching a “sliding doors moment in history”.

To toughen intellectual property protections he’ll call on Western firms and researchers and for Western countries to work harder to develop alternatives to Chinese technology, which Fleming says brings “hidden costs”.

He will add with a doctrine of denying other nations access to space in the event of a conflict “Many believe that China is building a powerful anti-satellite capability”.

Then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson ordered Huawei to be stripped out of the U.K. ‘s 5G telecoms network by 2027 the U.S. has banned Chinese tech firm Huawei as a security risk, and in 2020.

In Ukraine Fleming will also address the war, by saying that Russia is running short of weapons and Ukraine’s “courageous action on the battlefield and in cyberspace is turning the tide”.

He will say “Russia’s forces are exhausted”. “Speaks of a desperate situation, the use of prisoners to reinforce, and now the mobilization of tens of thousands of inexperienced conscripts”.

Alongside MI5 and MI6 GCHQ, is one of Britain’s three main intelligence agencies, formally known as the Government Communications Headquarters. The sources of its intelligence it did not disclose on China and Russia.

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