MI5 Head Warns of Complex Threat From CCP, Autocratic Regimes

Published on October 8, 2024

MI5 Director General Ken McCallum gave a rare public speech on Oct. 8, shedding light on the biggest national security threats to the UK, which McCallum says have become more complex. Threats from autocratic regimes—namely Russia, Iran, and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—have resulted in a 48 percent increase in state threat investigations, McCallum said. With each regime, the “repression at home increasingly extends to aggression overseas.” “They invest heavily in human intelligence capabilities and in advanced cyber operations,” he said. “Their targets include sensitive government information, our technology, our democracy, journalists, and defenders of human rights.” McCallum said China presents the most complex relationship of the three because while the UK recognizes the CCP as a threat, it wants to maintain business relations with China....

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