The UK Intelligence and Security Committee of Parliament in the UK has published its report on China. A summary is provided below, but in essence the report accepts that communist China has infiltrated every aspect of UK society. It has, for example exerted strong influence upon the UK universities, so that criticism of the CCP is carefully controlled. As well, using its vast financial resources it has bought up strategic assets, in education and industry.
Beyond all this though, China has intelligence capacities far beyond the UK, having, as a communist society a “whole of state’ approach. “In practice, this means that Chinese state-owned and non-state-owned companies, as well as academic and cultural establishments and ordinary Chinese citizens, are liable to be (willingly or unwillingly) co-opted into espionage and interference operations overseas: much of the impact that China has on national security is overt – through its economic might, its takeovers and mergers, its interaction with Academia and Industry – as opposed to covert activity carried out by its intelligence officers.”
