Paris, Pall Mall and a Code of Practice for Cyber Capabilities

Philip Shetler-Jones, a researcher at the Royal United Services Institute, said that for the moment China did not “deem it worth the risk” to initiate a significant military move against Taiwan, as the balance of power was still in the US’s favour.

“We and other Nato countries are completely plugged in to what the Americans provide and do,” said Ed Arnold, senior research fellow for European security at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), the defence think tank. “It is not just about the kit, but about the command and control of a battlefield, logistics and intelligence.”

The latest leak “reinforces a trend of caution rather than being a crisis on its own,” says Matthew Savill, an expert at the Royal United Services Institute (Rusi) think tank in London and a former UK defence intelligence official.