We need to start taking China’s tech threat seriously

A ‘whole of government’ approach is the only way to tackle Chinese influence on our nation’s institutions, writes Conservative MP Bob Seely

If you are working at the cutting edge of technology today, you might not be interested in geopolitics, but geopolitics is certainly interested in you (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

If you are presented with a large, menacing, and at times seemingly undetectable danger, it might be assumed that you would take steps to protect yourself from said danger.

Certainly, what you wouldn’t do is nothing.

Yet, when presented with a similar danger in China – a large, menacing and at times seemingly undetectable threat – we appear to be doing very little except gawping at the danger before us.