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US spy chief says, China’s tech aims are a ‘threat to us all”

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The head of Britain’s cyber-intelligence agency is accusing China of clamping down at home and exerting control abroad using its economic and technological clout by saying that by fear and poses “a huge threat to us all Beijing’s aggressive stance is driven”.  Using technologies such as digital currencies and satellite systems to control China’s population and increase its influence around the world Jeremy Fleming, director of GCHQ, says Beijing’s Communist authorities are seeking to “shape the global tech ecosystem”.  In a rare public speech later Tuesday to the Royal United Services Institute think tank. He will say that “underlying that belief is a sense of fear “as either potential adversaries or potential client states, to be threatened, bribed or coerced”, Fleming plans to say that the one-party system in Beijing seeks to control China’s population and sees other countries”.    According to extracts of the speech released in advance Fleming will say that “...