China targets Britain’s commercial, academic institutions as government fails to recognise threat: MP report

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China has ruthlessly targeted Britain’s commercial and academic institutions as part of its ambition to be an economic and technological superpower, whilst successive UK governments have been slow to recognise the threat posed by Beijing, according to an influential committee of MPs.

The long-awaited report by Parliament’s Intelligence and Security Committee found that Chinese institutions had successfully penetrated every sector of the British economy, in part because of a willingness by UK governments to accept Chinese investment “with few questions asked” until recently.