SPY CHIEF WARNS CHINA KEEN TO STEAL CANADIAN TECH

The head of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is warning that China is undermining Canada through its efforts to steal valuable technology and silence critics of beijing’s policies. In a speech Tuesday, CSIS director david Vigneault, shown, said all sectors of Canadian society must work together to fend off these threats. He bluntly stated that beijing is “using all events, all elements of state power, to carry out activities that are a direct threat to our national security and sovereignty.” Among the sectors most vulnerable to state-sponsored cyberespionage are biopharmaceuticals and health, artificial intelligence, quantum computing and aerospace, he said. These technologies are largely developed within academia in small startups, which are attractive targets because they have modest security protections.