No time to die laughing: #MI6 head thanks China for ‘free publicity’ in #JamesBond spoof
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No time to die laughing: #MI6 head thanks China for ‘free publicity’ in #JamesBond spoof
The head of MI6 has thanked China for “unexpected free publicity” after the country mocked him in a state news James Bond spoof video.
#RichardMoore, who became the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service in October 2020, said in a speech last year that a rising China was the agency’s “single greatest priority” for the first time in its history.
In his address, Mr Moore, codenamed C, accused China of getting “people on the hook” in Africa and elsewhere by forcing smaller countries to take on onerous borrowing in return for building vital infrastructure or seizing control of their data to supply essential services.
However, in a four-minute video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, China’s #XinhuaNews lampooned the MI6 chief’s warnings with a sketch featuring a pair of British spies, James Pond and Black Window.
Xinhua said the video, No Time To Die Laughing, was “leaked footage” of a “secret meeting” between British spies and their US counterparts, describing the clip as “rib-tickling”.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/06/no-time-die-laughing-mi6-head-thanks-china-free-publicity-james/
Source: Telegraph #Jan6
The head of MI6 has thanked China for “unexpected free publicity” after the country mocked him in a state news James Bond spoof video.
#RichardMoore, who became the chief of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service in October 2020, said in a speech last year that a rising China was the agency’s “single greatest priority” for the first time in its history.
In his address, Mr Moore, codenamed C, accused China of getting “people on the hook” in Africa and elsewhere by forcing smaller countries to take on onerous borrowing in return for building vital infrastructure or seizing control of their data to supply essential services.
However, in a four-minute video posted to Twitter on Tuesday, China’s #XinhuaNews lampooned the MI6 chief’s warnings with a sketch featuring a pair of British spies, James Pond and Black Window.
Xinhua said the video, No Time To Die Laughing, was “leaked footage” of a “secret meeting” between British spies and their US counterparts, describing the clip as “rib-tickling”.
Read the full article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/06/no-time-die-laughing-mi6-head-thanks-china-free-publicity-james/
Source: Telegraph #Jan6
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No time to die laughing: MI6 head thanks China for ‘free publicity’ in James Bond spoof
Richard Moore shakes off video, of fictional spies James Pond and Black Window, mocking him expressing fears of country’s growing influence
James Bond Has No Time for China
The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macau were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.
Source: NYTimes #Oct16
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html
#JamesBond #China #Russia #KGB
The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macau were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.
Source: NYTimes #Oct16
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/16/opinion/james-bond-china.html
#JamesBond #China #Russia #KGB