China rejects UK spy chief’s charge of calling it threat to cyber freedom

China, which has built the world’s largest internet test facility to push for the development of next-generation innovations in cyber technology, has dismissed as “groundless” the UK spy chief’s remarks that freedom and security of the internet was at risk from Beijing and Moscow.

The Director-General of British spy service GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) , Jeremy Fleming said the UK and its allies risk losing control of the internet and the security of future technologies to China and Russia, who have a different and competing vision of the future.

Unless decisive action is taken, “it is increasingly clear that the key technologies on which we will rely for our future prosperity and security won’t be shaped and controlled by the West.