A few worrying recent headlines concerning Chinese influence in UK.
I think that the same is happening in NZ, Australia and Africa and elsewhere?
Should we really be allowing our most skilled ex RAF pilots to train a potential enemy??
The biggest surprise in Thursday’s security warning about a Chinese agent seeking to influence British politicians is that it came as a surprise at all. The Chinese Communist Party operates a vast and growing influence operation in Britain, which has pretty much been allowed free rein!
How the Chinese government is buying its way into UK universities.From funding professorships to censoring students, the Chinese state has more influence on British educational establishments than we realise.
In 2019, China and the UK collaborated on 16,267 research papers – up from around 750 in 2000. This amounts to around 11 per cent of the UK’s research output now including Chinese authors – up from just 1 per cent 20 years ago, as indexed in the Web of ScienceTM global citation index
In recent years Britain has gone all-in on Chinese students. More than 140,000 are enrolled in undergraduate or postgraduate courses, up 50% from five years ago.
In 2021, China was the UK's largest import partner and sixth-largest export partner for goods.The UK imported £63.6 billion of goods from China in 2021 (13.3% of all goods imports to the UK) and exported £18.8 billion of goods (5.8% of all goods exports from the UK