China has set debt traps, data traps, says British spy chief

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China has set debt traps, data traps, says British spy chief

This may include advertisements from us and 3rd parties based on our understanding. The new head of Britain's foreign security service, the Secret Intelligence Service, or SIS, said that China has set debt traps and data traps, prompting the UK to take more stringent security measures. C said: If you allow another country to gain access to really critical data about your society over time, you don't have any control over that data, and Beijing is trying to use influence through its economic policies to try and get people on the hook. Speaking on Radio 4's Today Programme, the top spy chief said: That's something that we are very alive in the UK and we've taken measures to defend against. Britain has been wary of Chinese influence throughout its infrastructure and network. London was ordered by Washington to stop Chinese company Huawei from installing the nation's 5 G network because of its fear of distant monitoring of communications traffic, as well as data mining.

According to Moore, who spoke later at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, China is now the single greatest priority for his agency and warned that a miscalculation by an over-confident regime in Beijing over an issue like Taiwan could pose a serious challenge to global peace. After the signing of the AUKUS deal, Britain has angered China in recent times, according to former MI 6 chief Sir John Sawers: Although the pact is not aggressive towards China, it is a defence alliance, and in many ways it is China that has been expanding its military footprint, into the South China SeaChina Sea and the Indian PacificPacific Ocean. He stated its support for a wider defence arrangement, but China is the main focus of his concern. He warned of the threats posed by Russia. He called Moscow an acute threat and said Russian President Vladimir Putin has been clear that he does not recognise Ukraine's right to be an independent state. "From time to time we get crises around Ukraine, as we worry about a build-up of troops and what President Putin's intentions might be," Moore said. He added: Therefore it bears very careful watching and it bears very careful signalling to the Russians about the price that they would have to pay if they intervened, as they did in 2014. He said there was not an adversarial agenda and he said that we're not trying to encircle Russia, we're not trying to prevent it from pursuing its legitimate interests. During the height of the Cold War, around 80 percent of British intelligence resources were focused on counter-intelligence and anti-Soviet measures, according to Detroit school shooting: three killed, six injured REPORT Ireland exports to EU to dodge the EU's Brexit red tape. The parameters changed when the Iron Curtain fell, and global terrorism and extremism took the front step following 9-11, which saw a complete turn of resources, seeing SIS, the Security Services, MI 5 and Government Communication Headquarters GCHQ focus 80 percent of their efforts on counter-terrorism. Mr Moore has suggested that the crime-terror nexus might see itself behind in priorities as new threats come to an end as China and Russia are emerging as global players. Many people questioned whether Brexit would affect the efficiency of the British intelligence services, but experts say that the UK remain firmly in control of their security apparatus, in part assisted by being a member of the 5 eyes intelligence network.