LONDON (AP) — A U.K. spy chief says Western countries risk losing control of technologies that are key to internet security and economic prosperity to nations with competing values like China and Russia if they don’t face up to the threat. GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming said “significant technology leadership is moving East” and causing a conflict of interests and values. He raised the possibility of countries with “illiberal values” building them into technical standards that the world ends up relying on. He singled out China as a particular threat, saying its “size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system.”
