The chief of GCHQ has stated that Chinese technology poses a huge threat to the security and prosperity of the United Kingdom.Infomation Guide Nigeria
Sir Jeremy Fleming stated in a lecture that China‘s government was utilising technology to guarantee domestic and international control.
He believed that the United Kingdom and its allies needed to solve this situation immediately.
In addition, he stated that Russia’s military was depleted, but there were no indicators of nuclear weapon usage.
The head of the intelligence agency told an audience at the Royal United Service Institute’s annual security lecture that China had intentionally and carefully set out to acquire “strategic advantage by shaping the world’s technology ecosystem”
Sir Jeremy believed that the Chinese Communist Party intended to use the technology that supports people’s lives in order to entrench its control domestically and internationally and provide monitoring opportunities.
He warned China was seeking to create “client economies and governments” by exporting technology to countries around the world, and said these countries risked “mortgaging the future” by buying in Chinese technology with “hidden costs”.
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He pointed to a series of examples including:
- China’s development of the BeiDou satellite system – a rival to the established GPS network which he said had been built into exports to more than 120 countries. He claimed it could be used to track individuals or combined with plans to knock out other countries’ satellites in the event of a conflict
- New standards for the internet proposed by China which would embed greater government control
- Plans for Chinese digital currencies which he suggested were a sign of Beijing seeking to learn lessons from Russia’s experience and insulate itself from the impact of sanctions.
However, the intelligence head stated that he would not prevent minors from using TikTok, which is owned by the Chinese company ByteDance. He did, however, state that young people should be more conscious of how their personal data could be shared.
“No, I wouldn’t (stop children from using TikTok), but I would speak to my child about the way in which they think about their personal data on their device,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme in advance of the lecture.
“I think it’s really important from a very early age that we understand that there is no free good here. When we are using these services we are exchanging our data for that and if it’s proportionate and we’re happy with the way that data is safeguarded then that’s great.
Chinese control of future technology is not inevitable though, he said, adding: “Our future strategic tech advantage rests on what we do as a community next.”
