{"id":113633,"date":"2022-07-06T12:30:37","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113633"},"modified":"2022-07-06T12:39:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T16:39:37","slug":"bbc-china-mi5-and-fbi-heads-warn-of-immense-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=113633","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) China: MI5 and FBI heads warn of \u2018immense\u2019 threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

The heads of UK and US security services have made an unprecedented joint appearance to warn of the threat from China.<\/p>\n

FBI director Christopher Wray said China was the “biggest long-term threat to our economic and national security” and had interfered in politics, including recent elections.<\/p>\n

MI5 head Ken McCallum said his service had more than doubled its work against Chinese activity in the last three years and would be doubling it again.<\/p>\n

MI5 is now running seven times as many investigations related to activities of the Chinese Communist Party compared to 2018, he added.<\/p>\n

The FBI’s Wray warned that if China was to forcibly take Taiwan it would “represent one of the most horrific business disruptions the world has ever seen”.<\/p>\n

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Heads of UK and US security services make unprecedented joint appearance to warn of threat from China<\/p>\n

https:\/\/t.co\/uCAZJOXjtY<\/a><\/p>\n

— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) July 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n