The MI6 building on the bank of the Thames in central London. Photograph: Toby Melville/Reuters
The Guardian: UK spy agencies urge China rethink once Covid-19 crisis is over
MI6 and MI5 expect Beijing to be more assertive and want government to consider tighter control of strategic industries
Britain’s intelligence community believes the UK needs to reassess its relationship with China after the coronavirus crisis subsides and consider if tighter controls are needed over high-tech and other strategic industries.
They reckon China will become more assertive in defending its one-party model as having successfully tackled the pandemic and that Boris Johnson and other ministers will have to take a “realistic view” and consider how the UK responds.
Issues being aired are whether the UK wants to restrict takeovers of key companies in high-tech areas such as digital communications and artificial intelligence, and whether it should reduce Chinese students’ access to research at universities and elsewhere.
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Update: UK Spy Agencies Predict More Assertive China Post-Coronavirus – Reports (Sputnik)
WNU Editor: I for one would not be surprised if all western intelligence agencies are doing a rethink on China right now. And they are not waiting for the end of this pandemic to do this rethink.
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It doesn't do an Intelligence Agency any good to rethink something on their own. The government, people, whoever are their supervisors are the ones who must do the rethink.
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