UK spy chief: China's rise is world's top security issue

By Associated Press

Oct 13, 2022 12:11 am

LONDON: The head of the United Kingdom's cyber-intelligence agency on Tuesday accused China of trying to 'rewrite the rules of international security,' saying Beijing was using its economic and technological clout to clamp down at home and exert control abroad.

Jeremy Fleming, director of the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ), said that despite the war raging in Europe since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Beijing's growing power was the 'national security issue that will define our future.'

WESTERN WARNING Jeremy Fleming, head of the United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters, is photographed in the capital London on Feb. 14, 2019. AP FILE PHOTO

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