China pursuing 'very promiscuous' strategy to obtain intelligence

Former MI6 chief Nigel Inkster told an event in Dublin that he did not want a 'McCarthyist' approach involving 'systemic discrimination' of Chinese people, but a 'realistic' one.

China is engaged in a “very promiscuous” strategy to obtain intelligence and scientific knowledge from all sorts of organisations, including universities in Britain and Ireland, a former British spy chief has said.

Nigel Inkster, former director of operations and intelligence at MI6, told an event in Dublin that there needs to be “much more rigorous policing” of this threat.