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UK will protect itself from ‘increasingly assertive’ China, says Prime Minister

Source: PA Wire

The UK is taking measures to protect itself from the “epoch-defining challenge” of an “increasingly assertive” China, the Prime Minister has said.

The Government is expected to say Beijing-linked hackers were behind a cyber attack on the Electoral Commission which exposed the personal data of 40 million voters, as well as 43 individuals including MPs and peers.

Speaking at an engineering firm in Barrow, would not be drawn on the expected announcement, but echoed the language used in the Government’s foreign

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