War is now not only happening in the real world but increasingly happening in virtual space. The U.S. national investigation agency FBI and Britain’s intelligence agency MI5 today issued a joint statement issuing a joint statement on the growing threat of hacker attacks from China.
FBI director Christophe Wray said the biggest long -term threat to the US economy and security now was China with its interference in politics and the electoral process.
Meanwhile, the MI5 chief said his agency had redoubled its efforts to counter Chinese activities over the past three years and would redouble it again. Investigations into the activities of the Chinese Communist Party, for example, increased sevenfold compared to 2018.
China has also been accused of "stealing and committing fraud" on a large scale through hacking activities. Apart from that, espionage activities using agents among the locals also increased.
What China is doing is nothing new. Spying and digging up national secrets have been carried out by major countries in the world for thousands of years. During the Cold War, espionage activities by the Soviet Union managed to steal various technologies such as nuclear bombs and supersonic planes from the West.
As a new superpower, China is now replacing the empty space left by the Soviet Union. The USSR no longer exists but the legacy of spying continues to this day. This is the main reason why the United States, UK, New Zealand, Australia and Canada are determined to ban telecommunications equipment for fear it could be used as a back door. The modern world does not need James Bond to spy [but only modems and Internet access.