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CIA director Invoice Burns and MI6 chief Richard Moore are being interviewed collectively by Roula Khalaf, editor of the Monetary Instances, as a part of the FT Weekend competition in London. Watch reside right here.
It’s the first time the 2 heads have appeared collectively at a public occasion within the historical past of their businesses’ 77-year intelligence sharing partnership.
It additionally represents the newest transfer by the British and US spy businesses to come back out of the shadows to raised warn the international locations they serve in regards to the mounting risks that the world faces.
The pair have written a joint column for the FT wherein they warn that political volatility at residence, Russia’s battle in Ukraine, battle within the Center East, the rise of China and fast technological change all imply the worldwide world order is “beneath risk in a approach we haven’t seen for the reason that chilly battle”.