Hinkley Point for Cyber Security: how safe is the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure?
My previous post covered the key challenges that engineers face in order to insure defence of the UK’s National Critical Infrastructure and stability of crucial Safety-Critical Systems in the context of Cyber Security threats such as armed conflicts around the world. This time we can consider how international politics could have impact on homeland security as well. As the UK Government put the Hinkley Point nuclear power station project under review, China’s ambassador to the UK Liu Xiaoming warned that wider relationships between the two countries are at risk: “Right now, the China-UK relationship is at a critical historical juncture… I hope the UK will keep its door open to China”. His Excellency Liu of course meant the open door to massive (up to 40 billion pounds) investment from China…