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Committee Material Published 30 Aug 2023 ↗ View on Parliament

Cross-government and external agency coordination in mitigating the risk of technological dependence on China is uneven and disjointed. The Government should create a central CNI list to improve coordination and clarify areas of priority. With the technology sector now dominated by a few key players, we are now over-reliant on Chinese technology. This is the direct result of deliberate, carefully directed and well- coordinated CCP policy to create dependence. We cannot overcome this dependenc...

Cross-government and external agency coordination in mitigating the risk of technological dependence on China is uneven and disjointed. The Government should create a central CNI list to improve coordination and clarify areas of priority. With the technology sector now dominated by a few key players, we are now over-reliant on Chinese technology. This is the direct result of deliberate, carefully directed and well- coordinated CCP policy to create dependence. We cannot overcome this dependence without an equally well-coordinated resilience strategy. (Paragraph 88) Alliances and partnerships Type: recommendation | Number: 26 | Response status: not_addressed Government response: 100. The Government agrees with the Committee that it is unacceptable that any foreign government or its proxies should engage in transnational repression (TNR) on UK soil or against UK citizens. That is why the Government has a zero-tolerance approach to any attempts to intimidate, harass, or harm