The director of the UK’s signals intelligence agency has delivered a speech in which he contemplated power in the digital age, observed that “China’s size and technological weight means that it has the potential to control the global operating system,” and hinted at an expanded role for the agency he leads as one way to fight back. GCHQ director Jeremy Fleming on Friday delivered the 2021 Vincent Briscoe Lecture for the Institute for Security, Science and Technology, and opened with an observation that humans love to connect to each other, that digital connectivity continues to become more pervasive and important, and that Britain is “a big animal in the digital world.” Fleming said the UK evolved into that status thanks to the Internet being largely a creation of the West.

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