The robotic probe was named Chang’e 4, a product of China’s £3.9 billion a year space exploration project. China has also leapfrogged the West in artificial intelligence — software that allows robots to plan ahead and learn from mistakes. Cyber-security experts fear that its products may include hidden features that would allow the Chinese regime to sabotage our systems or steal data from them. He hinted last month that Britain should follow New Zealand and other countries in banning Chinese technology in the most critical parts of national infrastructure. Blinded by commercial opportunities in China, Britain and most European countries have for years been mealy-mouthed in their condemnation of outrageous oppression and shocking abuses of human rights there, including the mass incarceration of up to a million Uighur Muslims in western China.

Source: Daily Mail January 04, 2019 22:04 UTC