A senior British intelligence official warned in a speech that while Russian aggression has created an urgent threat, China’s increasing use of technology to control dissent and its growing ability to attack satellite systemscontrolling digital currencies and tracking people pose much deeper challenges for the West.
In an interview Monday prior to his speech, the official, Jeremy Fleming, who runs GCHQ, the British electronic intelligence collection and IT agency who became famous for his role in cracking the Enigma codes in World War II, he also said he was skeptical about how far China would go to support Russia’s aggression.
“I don’t think this is a ‘relationship without limits‘”, he said, using the term used by Russian President Vladimir Putin and the president Xi Jinping from China when they met at the Beijing Olympics earlier this year, just before the invasion of Ukraine.
In light of Russia’s poor battlefield performance and brutality, he said, China “needs it
Source: Clarin
