The Chancellor has been warned of the risk of further integration with China. (Image: Getty)
The former head of MI6 has issued a stark warning on the risks of further integration with China following Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s controversial trip there.
Reeves will return from Beijing today following a three-day visit. This visit came at a time when the value of the pound is tumbling, as the cost of borrowing has risen to thirty-year highs due to a sharp rise in bond yields.
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The trip has generated ￡600 million worth of investment, but the government hopes that developing a closer relationship with Beijing will be the catalyst for large-scale investment in British industry.
Sir Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, has warned against relying on China to fund Britain’s energy infrastructure, claiming that Secretary of State for Energy Ed Miliband would ignore advice from the security services in favour of an “ideologically driven” push to reach net zero.
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Miliband's net zero pledge is underpinned by a reliance on China. (Image: Getty)
The warning comes as the Climate Secretary aims to make the energy grid carbon-neutral by the end of the decade as part of his net zero drive.
Currently, China dominates the market for the technology needed to achieve that ambition, including wind turbines, solar panels, and electric car batteries.
China has also been crucial in funding clean energy infrastructure in Britain. The Times' analysis found that Chinese businesses have funded or provided parts for at least 14 of the 50 British offshore wind farm projects in operation or late in development.
The analysis also found that companies owned by the Chinese government have large stakes in three projects, which combined produce enough energy to power up to two million homes.
Dearlove believes that allowing China to play such a key role in our future energy infrastructure is a “strategic issue”, with the country able to “reprogram” any of the components without our control.
Dearlove told the Times: “The fact of the matter is every Chinese industry is answerable to the leadership of the Communist party. If the order is ‘jump’, the response has to be ‘how high’, they have no options to say no. That’s the difficulty behind the scenes.
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