A senior British intelligence official has warned that China’s tech growth is posing a serious threat to the security of the UK and the West in general. Jeremy Fleming, director of Britain’s GCHQ intelligence agency, said on Friday that the West is facing a “moment of reckoning” as China and Russia increase their malign activities in cyberspace and other fields of technology. Technology development was largely driven and owned by the West, but now “we can see that significant technology leadership is moving east, causing a conflict of interests and values where prosperity and security are at stake,” he said at the Vincent Briscoe Lecture for the Institute for Security Science and Technology, Imperial College London. While Russia remains “the most acute threat to the UK,” Fleming suggested that China poses a much more systemic challenge, saying “Russia is affecting the weather, whilst China is shaping the climate.” “The threat …