China has for the first time become the single greatest focus for the UK’s spy agency MI6, with its chief warning the risk "is real" of a miscalculation by Beijing through underestimating western resolve to push back ⬇️
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Pointing to Taiwan, @ChiefMI6 Richard Moore said a desire by the ruling Chinese Communist Party - backed by an increasingly powerful military - to regain control of the territory by force if necessary was a "serious challenge to global stability and peace".
The 🇬🇧 spymaster also accused China of conducting "large-scale espionage operations against UK + our allies" & he said countries globally should be "clear-eyed" when dealing with Beijing because of potential to fall into a debt trap or to have data on their population exploited
It is very unusual for such a senior UK security figure to speak in such stark terms about China.
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