China is engaged in a “whole of state” assault on the U.K. and the Government’s approach has been “completely inadequate”, according to a report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee. Ian Acheson in the Spectator has more.
The Committee accepts that Chinese influence and interference activities may be difficult to detect, but questions whether the Government has even been looking in the first place. “China’s size, ambition and capability have enabled it to successfully penetrate every sector of the UK’s economy,” it states.
The nine-member committee, under the chairmanship of Sir Julian Lewis MP, began its inquiry in 2019 and is scathing about the Government’s failure to wake up to the challenges faced in academia, industry and technology, where the U.K. has been too willing to engage in tie-ups and to accept Chinese funding with few questions asked. The Chinese intelligence apparatus is almost certainly the largest in the world, and “it targets the U.K. and its interests prolifically and aggressively”, the report states.
It says China’s global ambition to become a technological and economic superpower represents the “the greatest threat to the U.K.”, and that “China seeks to influence elites and decision-makers, to acquire information and Intellectual Property using covert and overt methods, and to gain technological supremacy”.
China has hoovered up technology and know-how by every means possible, the Committee warns. “Chinese state-owned and non-state-owned companies, as well as academic and cultural establishments and ordinary Chinese citizens, are liable to be (willingly or unwillingly) co-opted into espionage and interference operations overseas.”
The Committee notes that while the Government insists its approach is “robust”, China experts struggle to see any strategy at all, let alone an effective one. It questions whether Government departments have the necessary resources, expertise or knowledge to counter China’s ‘all of society’ approach. “The U.K. is now playing catch-up and the whole of Government has its work cut out to understand and counter the threat from China.”
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Slapper my thigh, what a shocker!
Since when as our current gov ever done anything that favors its own people recently?
Are you referring to the same government that has been involved in knowingly murdering its own people, i.e. in premeditated democide?
That has knowingly subjected its own people to psychological operations?
The same government that is keen to rush through all of WEF’s tyrannical agendas, like Net Zero, programmable CBDCs and Digital ID?
Jeremy Hunt says “Nothing to worry about” his wife who works for CCP State Media says it’s not true.
She could easily be an eneny agent.
Two of Brits favourite occupations in one article: playing the US’ attack dog and blaming furreinas for their own mistakes.
The Committee notes that while the Government insists its approach is “robust”, China experts struggle to see any strategy at all, let alone an effective one.
I wouldn’t trust anything this government – or any UK government for that matter – says about anything. The government is in thrall to foreign influences.
The immediate question is whether one trusts a Parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee.
One question I would ask is, since China is the largest nation in the world by far, and has the largest industrial base in the world, why it would not become a technological and economic superpower in the normal course of events? Do we have a divine right to keep China poor and weak, since the Opium Wars we fomented are long over?
And is there any just way Britain can avoid that and become a technological and economic superpower itself, except by waging nuclear war on China? What technology do we now have in Britain that the Chinese either don’t have already and export back to us, or actually want?
That said, the renting out of our institutions to Chinese money is real, but I judge the real threats to our freedoms and prosperity to be in London and Washington, not the Far East.
As an ordinary everyday person in the UK I do not see any particular economic or security threat from China, for me the threat from China is the digital, centralised, social credit, 15 minute city way of life. But the threat of this way of life already seems to be coming from our own Governments as much as from China. The only downside of the Chinese approach is that they are ruthless and efficient in implementing it, whereas if our Government go down this route it will make a pigs ear of it and will probably inadvertently allow us to carve out some sort of life for ourselves.
Social credit and 15 minute cities (assuming those really are Chinese goals and not Western goals pinned on China) are only a threat from China if they ever become our political masters, that is if they stage a military takeover.
It seems to me we similarly face a dreadful future as and when North Korea rules the whole world…
It has yet to be established that either is a possibility.
….It’s an old chestnut they always bring out..that China can only steal technology..and its factually untrue….
China has more patents awarded than any other country..they are extremely smart….and they have some of the most clever graduates in the world..especially in the sciences…
It seems to me that if you believe that Russia, all Russians and Putin are all stupid mad and evil..and chomping at the bit to take over Europe….you will believe this…it’s from the same playbook…
This is the first sentence in the report…
1. ….. However, it is its ambition at a global level – to become a technological and economic superpower, on which other countries are reliant – that represents the greatest risk to the UK.
err…so as you say, just the fact that they are becoming economically successful is the threat..but it’s not a threat if it’s the USA…whom they mention several times.
It seems very simple actually..and the USA say it often..the threat to the USA’s economy ( and in the future it’s military) from China has to be stopped, because it threatens US hegemony..it’s pretty simple really.
The entire West has taken eyes off the ball and sees the big threat as Russia. In trying to minimise that threat it has done the opposite and destroyed a large part of its economy and military capability.
The Chinese must be laughing their socks off.
…plus the stupid American Biden neo-cons have done what every President and previous administration has tried not to do…they have united China, Russia and Iran (Persia)…in a common purpose…
I actually don’t think China wants global instability….but I’m not convinced that the Empire of Lies won’t take everyone down in their death throes…
Hunt’s on top of it.
Wow, I like easy to understand data and this is easy to understand data! Check out the comments below chart, including from Ethical Skeptic;
”WHAT IS KILLING THE YOUNG PEOPLE IN UK?
Please trust me when i tell you, you CAN understand this psychedelic chart and spending the time is worth it.
This is the latest UK Non Covid Mortality stats to June 2023
It shows the EXCESS percentages of people dying from ??? over and above the usual rates of death… after all the covid deaths have been removed.
So you cannot say “oh they are dying from covid”
When you see a red square its telling you that deaths are EXCEEDING the norm by more than 5%
Dark red squares by more than 10%
Black squares by more than 15%
Look at where all the black square “high die off” stats are…
In 2022 – 23 not a single “high die off” stat in people above the age of 64
But in the under 64 years categories its mayhem ESPECIALLY in the youngest 0 – 24 age group.
June 2023 in the 0 – 24 years female an EXCESS DEATH of nearly 21%
May 2023 in the 0 – 24 males an EXCESS DEATH of 30%
This the demographic that is the youngest and healthiest of the entire population.
They are dying in their thousands from something that is not covid, and nobody is talking about it.
No it’s not a slack health care system – this is the demographic that does not usually end up in a hospital
No it’s not slow ambulances – this demographic need ambulances the least”.
https://twitter.com/HopeRising19/status/1679766754179039232
Past caring – I know that neither I, nor my immediate family, took the death jabs.
Yep, and all for this;
”COVID death rates were never as bad as they promoted daily. It was a fear campaign to gain compliance. The tool of oppressors!!
The death rates were:
0-19 years old 0.0003%
20-29 0.002%
30-39 0.011%
40-49 0.035%
50-59 0.123%
60-69 0.506%
0-69 0.063-0.082%.”
https://twitter.com/TonyNikolic10/status/1680052633820889093
Jeremy Hunt. married to what could easily be a chinese agent, is fully aware of this.
Could be? Probably is. No one who hasn’t sworn loyalty to the CCP gets to leave Red China legally.
China’s power was amply proven by the British Government instigating the lockdowns. We know many prominent politicians and businessmen attend gentleman’s clubs with Chinese officials and backroom deals are happening all the time. We have a generation of ageing British politicians and businessmen who are happy to enrich themselves right now, in the knowledge that China will reign supreme after they’re dead of old age. They don’t care about future generations.
The EU-style technocratic ideology has been co-opted by China. Liberal democracies are hard to run: everyone has an opinion and people can be forthright and rude about those views. In a society where there’s ‘wrongthink’ and people a cancelled and/or blacklisted not just by banks and similar institutions, but driven out of public life by orchestrated social pressure and ‘outrage’ politicians realise how easy it is to run things. Look at the low traffic zones and other sustainability measures introduced in the UK under cover of lockdown, when no one could fight them. Lockdown protestors turned up in London once a week, got brutally beaten by masked paramilitaries pretending to be a police service and the press, now dependant on Government handouts, willingly condemned the protestors.
World War III is a war of beliefs being fought in an ideological sphere, rather than by dropping bombs.
The Chinese doctrine of unrestricted warfare, to win without firing a shot.
Cyber, information, economic, subversion, blackmail, fifth columnists, electronic, fentanol.
Use Taiwan as the test case and consider how, at every level, the US has been crushed by the CCP: Mitch McConnell’s father in law; everything on eBay made by Chinese slave labour; Tesla’s batteries; American manufacturing destroyed; 99% of universities; the Biden criminal cartel; the stolen 2020 Election; unchallenged spy balloons …
The CCP has eroded western strength such that when it wishes, it can go full kinetic if necessary.
As you say, our politicos are asleep, but many have been bought and paid for.
…while ‘The West’ has done what? Is China forcing useless net zero on us..?
forcing the education system to be rubbish? Is China making laws here that stop us peacefully protesting? Is China stopping free speech on the internet in the UK and Europe? Are they forcing the ludicrous LGBTQ stuff into schools, the police, the forces, and every bit of life in the UK?
Is China sending the migrants over?
..and if your answer is yes..how, and who exactly?
The West is imploding by its own hand..and being weak and corrupt has to find someone to blame..it was ‘ the war on terror’..it was the Taliban, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan..now it’s Russia, then it’s China….it’s ALWAYS whatever serves the interests of the USA Hegemon….