China is seeking to use new technologies — from satellite systems to digital currencies — to repress dissent at home and dominate its adversaries abroad, according to a U.K. intelligence chief.
Citing China’s focus on strategically vital technologies, Fleming will say that how governments respond to China “will define our future” and the scientific and technological community in democratic countries will need to rise to the challenge.
China is pursuing a centralized digital currency that could “enable China to partially evade the sort of international sanctions currently being applied to [Vladimir] Putin’s regime in Russia,” Fleming will say, according to the prepared remarks. China also has proposed new international rules for the internet that could threaten digital freedom and enhance state control, threatening human rights “by the introduction of new tracking methods,” the speech excerpts say.
Fleming’s planned speech comes after the head of the FBI and his British counterpart delivered a starkUnderlying China’s belief in one-party rule and tight state control is “a sense of fear,” Fleming will say. “Fear of its own citizens, of freedom of speech, free trade, open technological standards and alliances — the whole open, democratic order and the international rules-based system.
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