For the first time in history, the Secret Intelligence Service of the United Kingdom Mi6 will lead the woman – after the current manager Richard Moore Autumn will resign after five years of work. All three final candidates in an interview were women, two of them were MI-6 officers.
The British media recognized the name of the Third Canadian. According to Sunday Times, this Barbara Woodword – Post -uk to the UN, a former ambassador to China, which never He was not an agent and previously criticized for Sympathy for China.
She is currently the highest woman in the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, newspapers notes.
Barbara Woodword has been working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 1994. She held the position of international director of the border agency of the United Kingdom, and from 2015 to 2020 was Ambassador of the United Kingdom to China.
Its possible appointment of the head of the Mi6 causes a contradiction, because critics claim that it Too sympathetic ChinaField
In addition, as suggests, Woodword has no experience in intellect While Beijing launched “aggressive spy operations” in the United Kingdom, the newspaper writes.
Supporters of Woodword, in turn, say that her experience in Beijing gives her a unique perspective.
The 63-year-old diplomat was named the nickname “Beijing Barbara” For her unwillingness to criticize China, while the ambassador.
Когда несколько депутатов пострадали от санкций Китая за критику предполагаемого геноцида Уйгура в Цинджяне, его обвинили в “Insufficient definition” In solving this problem.
Having left China, she announced that Global Times is flourishing a tabloid that Taiwan will never get independence.
Prime Minister -Sir Sirus Stars He will make the final decision on the appointment on the recommendation of the Council David Lemmy and national security adviser Jonathan Powell, reports Sunday Times.
The other two candidates cannot be called because they are reconnaissance staff, but the situation would have changed if they received the highest position, the article says.
“This purpose is important for our safety and any duality about The huge threat represented by China, In the end, it will be a disaster for the United Kingdom, ”said Sir Ian Duncan Smith, a former leader of the conservative party of Tori, who also received sanctions from China.
According to him, “those of us who are regularly subjected to sanctions and attacks of“ the authorities in Beijing will be worried about being Woodword ” Not too hard In her actions about China, she raised the question of Sinjiang and Uyghur only when she left China. “
According to the sources of The Sunday Times, Woodward was proposed to use because There was no prominent candidate to replace the wall in the Mi6 itself.
Under the cover, Richard Moore served in Mi6 in Vietnam, Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia, after which he was the ambassador of Great Britain in Turkey, based in Ankara. Since 2020, the wall served as the head of the secret intelligence service.
Recent months of Britain’s security service claim that Chinese spies penetrated the nearest Wednesday of the Duke of York – Prince Andrew, received information about British enterprises and The dissidents of Hong Kong attacked In the UK.
British intelligence says that Chinese espionage activity has an industrial scale.
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