China mocks British Intel via James Bond parody, MI6 boss is even grateful

BEIJING – State media China , Xinhua, mocked British intelligence by making a parody of “James Bond” videos. However, the spy chief MI6 Instead, thank you for the joke.

MI6 chief Richard Moore thanked Chinese state media, which he said had provided his agency with free publicity.

parody video entitled “No Time to Die Laughing‘ featured James Bond, known as Agent 0.07 MI6 discussing the agency’s fixation on China as a “top priority.” However, the scene was packaged as a joke filled with laughs.

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Moore thanked Xinhua for his interest in MI6. “And unexpected free publicity,” he said, as quoted by Russia Today, Friday (7/1/2022).

Moore also shared a link to the speech hawkish which he presented at the International Institute for Strategic Studies last November, where he dubbed Beijing the “single biggest priority” for spy agencies, which seemed to provide the inspiration for the satire.

“It’s not just about being able to understand China and China’s decision-making. We must be able to operate undetected as a covert intelligence agency anywhere in surveillance networks around the world,” Moore said at the time, denouncing Beijing as an “authoritarian state”.

First published earlier this week, the parody video was also shot in the United States. The video jokingly highlights the global spying apparatus created by America’s National Security Agency (NSA), as well as the harsh treatment of whistleblowers and journalists like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange.

Of Washington’s 17 major intelligence agencies, none have commented on the video or thanked China for the spotlight as Moore did.

The parody goes on to defend the Chinese telecommunications giant; Huawei, from allegations that it monitors its customers using “back doors” secret, where “Agent 0.06” in the parody calls the idea “bullshit”.

While former US national security adviser Robert O’Brien previously claimed Washington had evidence that Huawei could access sensitive and private information on users’ devices.

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