British spies have given the increasing British spies have given increasingly negative assessments of Beijing's influence and intentions Last year the head of the MI 6 overseas intelligence agency Richard Moore called China one of the biggest threats called China one of the biggest threats to Britain and its allies while in 2020 then British prime minister Boris Johnson followed the U.S. in banning Chinese tech firm way way as a security risk ordering it to be stripped out of the UK's 5G telecoms network by 2027