Chinese cyber attacks could bring the West to a standstill

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  Welcome to The World in 10.

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  In an increasingly uncertain world, this is The Times' daily podcast dedicated to global security.

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  I'm Laura Cook with Toby Gillis.

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  Last month,

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  a total power cut across Spain and Portugal left the two nations and the wider world with more questions than answers.

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  Still, with both having ruled out a cyber attack, it's not clear why it happened.

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  Yet the carnage it caused prompted The Times' security expert Edward Lucas to analyse a future in which a cyber attack leaves much of the West in the dark.

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  In it,

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  he references a recent warning by the so-called Five Eyes intelligence-sharing alliance of Australia,

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  Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States that China has a team preparing to do just that.

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  The vision Edward paints sounds apocalyptic.

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