The UK should reassess its relationship with China once pandemic has subsided, British intelligence services advise

Britain’s intelligence community believes the UK needs to reassess its relationship with China after the coronavirus crisis subsides and consider if tighter controls are needed over high-tech and other strategic industries.
They reckon China will become more assertive in defending its one-party model as having successfully tackled the pandemic and that Boris Johnson and other ministers will have to take a “realistic view” and consider how the UK responds.
Issues being aired are whether the UK wants to restrict takeovers of key companies in high-tech areas such as digital communications and artificial intelligence, and whether it should reduce Chinese students’ access to research at universities and elsewhere.

Ben wrote:Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence has concluded that China has been lying from the beginning about how many Covid-19 infections and deaths have occurred there. Pretty much backs up what a lot of people have been saying for weeks ...