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CHINA

GCHQ statistics show a similar picture:

Between 2000 and 2019, the number of GCHQ and National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) staff working on China increased from *** FTE to *** FTE. In 2020, this increased to *** FTE. The percentage of operational effort dedicated to China has increased from ***% in 2000 to ***% in 2019. Operational effort on China rose to ***% in 2020. ***.

MI5 statistics provide an overall picture of work on Hostile State Activity (HSA), of which China is only one strand:

For the financial year 2019/20, HSA was allocated a total spend of £*** (International Counter-Terrorism and Northern Ireland-related terrorism received £*** and £*** respectively). Of that £***, work on China received £***. This was an increase of £*** from the previous year (but it nevertheless only represents a return to the levels of ***). The proportion of mission effort on China is around ***%. This roughly equates to *** people.

JIO similarly has found it difficult to disaggregate exactly:

In March 2021, the JIO China Team contained *** FTE staff with *** due to be advertised (an increase from *** FTE pre-2017 and *** FTE in early 2019). In addition, there *** dedicated to China open source work.