MANCHESTER, England — China is “well on its way to becoming a cyber superpower” a senior British government minister warned on Wednesday, adding that it now simply wasn’t feasible to decouple from Beijing given the country’s role in global supply chains.

Britain warns that China is becoming a ‘cyber superpower’
Pat McFadden, the most senior minister in Britain’s Cabinet Office, told the CYBERUK conference that Beijing had “the sophistication, the scale and the seriousness” to pose an exceptional national sec...