Security News > 2020 > October > Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general
Britain's enemies are investing more and more in cyber warfare capabilities, the UK's top general has warned - singling out Russia and its "Digital authoritarianism".
"China's new Strategic Support Force is designed to achieve dominance in the space and cyber domains," said the professional head of the armed forces.
"It commands satellite information attack and defence forces; electronic assault forces and internet assault forces; campaign information operations forces, which include conventional electronic warfare forces, anti-radiation assault forces, and battlefield cyber warfare forces."
General Carter also singled out Russia and China's exporting of digital authoritarianism*, warning that technological advances are being used to strangle liberty and democracy at birth, stating that the concept "Also explores how the Chinese Communist Party is forging a future of mass surveillance and 'social credit scores' and is rapidly exporting these tools to other parts of the world".
Unfortunately for the British general, the blog about China includes this sentence: "However, China is not the only actor responsible for supplying repressive technology. Other countries, such as Israel, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Russia, also supply advanced capabilities to repressive regimes - from location-tracking spyware and hi-resolution video surveillance, to hacking software, and censorship filtering applications."