China funding UK research and sending it to Beijing's spies, MI5 warns

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> UK academics have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects on topics including AI, cyber-security, covert communications systems and steganography, which means hiding a secret message or file inside an ordinary message or object.

Aren't these things that are worthwhile research topics.

Covert communications systems and steganography are just things that intelligence agencies don't like, so they'd be suspicious of any research into them, funded by China or otherwise.

I find it strange that they wouldn't expect China to be wanting 'something' back since they're finding the research. In which case, why allow funding from China at all?

MI5 commits perjury in defending its Nazi staff, China warns.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3j4jz07e2v8o

whataboutism.

He was used to spy on extremist right wing groups. Spies becoming influenced or sometimes aligned is not unheard of.

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