MI5

UK will do more to counter Chinese spying threat, says MI5 chief

Ken McCallum says security agencies are battling competing priorities

Britain’s domestic security service MI5 is “looking to do more” to counter the espionage risk from China as the threat posed by states hostile to the UK increases, its new director-general Ken McCallum revealed on Wednesday.

Mr McCallum, who was speaking publicly via a virtual briefing for the first time since taking up his post in April, said security agencies were battling competing priorities.

“The national security challenges presented by Russian, Chinese, Iranian and other actors are growing in severity and in complexity,” he said. “We face a nasty mix — terrorism isn’t going away, and state-backed hostile activity is on the rise.”

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