Brexit Britain’s ability to ‘chart destiny’ on global stage under threat from rising China
China: Nicholas Eftimiades discusses ’exploitation’ of technology
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Former US intelligence officer Nick Eftimiades has warned that China’s expanding global hegemony is capable of preventing Britain from operating as an independent and sovereign nation following Brexit. The expert on Chinese intelligence operations has warned that Beijing is capable of dictating terms as the UK Government looks to expand Britain’s role in the world. Mr Eftimiades told Express.co.uk that Britain’s very ability to “chart your own destiny” was now in doubt given the global reach of Xi Jinping’s Communist Party.
“I think you are at a point where it is even becoming a question whether you can chart your own destiny.
“Or whether China has so much influence financially and through the political apparatus that it is going to ‘help’ Britain chart its own destiny.
“Whether or not you want it and it is at that point.
“I mean Australia realized this about earlier on than the rest of us and God bless the Aussies they put and to it, they stood up to China.”
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“The United States for over 30 years we have had failed policy towards China.
“Simply because American arrogance and corporate greed took precedence over the interests of not only our nation but global democracy.
“That is a simple reality and we use to have these debates back in the 90s.
“Now Americans say we never knew, no we have had quite a long string of debates in the United States since most favored nation status as to how the world should approach, and how the United States should approach a rising China.
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“It was our own arrogance and greed that allowed China to get this far.
“The UK is exactly at that point whether your own arrogance and greed is going to allow China to become a great controlling force in the world and ultimately your own country.”
It comes as the leading expert on China intelligence gather warned that the UK was vulnerable to attempts by China to exploit British sourced technology.
Mr Eftimiades told Express.co.uk: “The UK is a really unique case and they are so because of their legal structure.
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“I mean in the United States we have the international trafficking arms regulation, we have ITAR. We have export enforcement regulations.
“So we are very very heavily regulated as to the type of technologies that can be exported and under what condition. The UK not soo much so. He added: “So you find the UK in collaborative academic and industrial relations with China.
“I mean we have a somewhat of a similar case in the United States we have technology in universities which we know are being supplied to the military, that are going to the People’s Liberation Army,” continued the former intelligence officer, “And it is the same challenge that the UK has so we have work in optics in satellite optics and ground bases optical systems.
“We have work in the UK on advanced communication systems. Which are also being exploited, if you will, by China for commercial as well as for military purposes.”
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