The UK government is assessing the national security risk of all Sino–British research and innovation links, a minister said on Wednesday.
Responding to concerns raised by Liberal Democrat MP Alistair Carmichael about national security risks in genomics, particularly in collaborating with Chinese genomics company BGI, science minister George Freeman said MPs are “well aware that we have to manage such risks properly.”
Freeman said he had commissioned and just received a detailed assessment of “all the China research and innovation links across our system” from the UK Research and Innovation, the new government hub for innovation, adding, “We did the same last year for Russia.”…