MI5 warns UK academics to cut ties with Chinese group over alleged spying

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In a rare public espionage alert on Wednesday, MI5 alleged the ⁠⁠”primary purpose” of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) is to finance academic work that improves the espionage capability of the Ministry of State Security (MSS), the Chinese intelligence agency.

There was no immediate response from Beijing, which has previously strongly denied such accusations.

MI5 said the CGTRI targeted more than 100 UK-based academics working in areas such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, covert communications systems and steganography.

Ele disse que muitos acadêmicos e instituições teriam se envolvido de boa fé com a organização, sem saber de seus laços estreitos com o MSS. Mas acrescentou que aqueles que continuassem a receber subsídios ou a trabalhar com o CGTRI agora corriam risco de serem processados sob a Lei de Segurança Nacional do Reino Unido, uma lei aprovada em 2023 que concedeu ao governo maiores poderes para combater espionagem estrangeira e atividades hostis de estados.

UK Security Minister ⁠⁠Dan Jarvis said he had written to all university leaders in Britain to ensure staff ended any relationship with the CGTRI.

The UK’s relationship with China, its third largest trading partner, has become ⁠⁠increasingly complex in recent years.

O governo em Londres tem buscado melhores relações com Pequim para melhorar os laços comerciais e, no início deste ano, aprovou planos para a China construir sua maior embaixada na Europa na capital do Reino Unido.

But it has also repeatedly warned of Chinese spying efforts and attempts to undermine the UK’s democratic system.

Last year, Ken McCallum, MI5’s director-general, said Chinese spies were creating fake job adverts to try to dupe British professionals into handing over data.

Sua agência também emitiu um alerta aos legisladores do UK no último novembro de que agentes chineses estavam os visando para coletar informações e influenciar suas atividades se passando por headhunters ou empresas.

In ‌‌June, ‌‌security agencies from the Five Eyes intelligence alliance – the US, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – published a warning about Chinese spies aggressively using online job platforms to recruit people with access to sensitive information.

China’s London embassy said the warning was “entirely fabricated and constitutes malicious slander”.

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