In response to China’s increasing spying and infiltration efforts, British intelligence agencies have recently made plans to recruit a large number of Chinese-speaking personnel, and the new cadres are expected to become key personnel for the intelligence agencies, according to the Evening Standard, a local tabloid newspaper.
According to the Evening Standard, a local tabloid newspaper, in the face of the growing threat from China, the British intelligence agencies, the British Security Service (MI5, MI5), the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6, MI6), and the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), have recently launched a recruitment drive to recruit Chinese-speaking personnel in the hope that they will be trained as “core intelligence officers” who can interpret intelligence and provide clearer analysis.
As China has developed a massive spy force focused on stealing countries’ trade secrets, intellectual property and other political interventions, British intelligence agencies have chosen not to compete with it in terms of size, but instead to compete with China through innovations in intelligence technology, more sophisticated infiltration techniques, and increased cooperation with the Five Eyes Alliance, the U.S., Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and other European and international partners, according to the report.
Ken McCallum, head of the MI5, has recently stated that one of the greatest challenges for the MI5 and the UK government in the 2020s is the escalating threat to national security and the ability to infiltrate countries such as Russia, China and Iran, as well as the continuing threat of terrorism; he has also stressed that the MI5 is committed to protecting the secrets of the Wuhan pneumonia vaccine developed by UK universities and pharmaceutical companies from “hostile forces” at the First Global Wuhan Pneumonia Vaccine Development Competition.
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