Declassified UK has found that Chinese military officers have attended Britain’s most exclusive military academy over the last two years. Academy staff even visited the Huawei HQ in China, seven months before the head of MI6 expressed concerns about the tech giant.
on arms sales to mainland China since the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, the ban does not extend to military training.
These have included trips to China with support from the British embassy in Beijing. In May 2018, an RCDS team consisting of British military officers and their foreign counterparts visited the corporate headquarters of Huawei, China’s giant tech company, in Shenzhen. The purpose was to “understand high tech, IT and ICT achievements and ambitions in China”.
The plan for the visit noted that the aim was to “understand social networking” in China and discuss “balancing public security and personal privacy”.
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