UK Must Assess Threat of China and Russia Utilizing Pandemic: Lawmakers

UK Must Assess Threat of China and Russia Utilizing Pandemic: Lawmakers
Soldiers of the People's Liberation Army march in front of the entrance of the Forbidden City in Beijing on May 20, 2020. Andrea Verdelli/Getty Images
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Britain must fully assess the threat of “hostile foreign states” such as China and Russia utilizing the CCP virus pandemic to their advantage, a UK Parliamentary committee has warned.

The UK needs to make “a robust assessment of the capabilities and short and long-term ambitions of hostile foreign states,” the Defence Committee of the House of Commons said in its recommendations for the government’s security review, which had been shelved at the start of the pandemic.