{"id":30352,"date":"2023-02-14T10:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30352"},"modified":"2023-02-14T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T10:34:24","slug":"uk-must-wake-up-to-china-threat-says-ex-mi6-chief-sir-alex-younger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=30352","title":{"rendered":"UK must wake up to China threat, says ex-MI6 chief Sir Alex Younger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC News:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The UK must &#8220;wake up&#8221; to the threat posed by China&#8217;s challenges to global security, the ex-head of MI6 has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Alex Younger, who led the UK&#8217;s Intelligence Service between 2014 and 2020, said Western nations are &#8220;under full press of Chinese espionage&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US military have shot down four objects &#8211; including a suspected Chinese spy balloon &#8211; in the past week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sir Alex told the BBC the UK must place limits on tolerating countries &#8220;who behave in an unacceptable way&#8221;,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 4 February, the US military shot down a Chinese spy balloon after it travelled over sensitive military sites across North America. China has claimed the object was a weather balloon gone astray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since then, the three other &#8220;unidentified objects&#8221; have been downed across North America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News: The UK must &#8220;wake up&#8221; to the threat posed by China&#8217;s challenges to global security, the ex-head of MI6 has said. Sir Alex Younger, who led the UK&#8217;s Intelligence Service between 2014 and 2020, said Western nations are &#8220;under full press of Chinese espionage&#8221;. US military have shot down four objects &#8211; including a suspected Chinese spy balloon &#8211; in the past week. Sir Alex told the BBC the UK must place limits on tolerating countries &#8220;who behave in an unacceptable way&#8221;, On 4 February, the US military shot down a Chinese spy balloon after it travelled over&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30354,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30352\/revisions\/30354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}