While we are not alone in this staggering level of economic dependency on China, we have been among the most reluctant nation to admit the problem or do much about it ✒️ Iain Duncan Smith (MPIainDS) for ipaperviews
After the Berlin Wall came down, politicians in the West assumed the free market would always triumph over communism. They believed that once they were exposed to the global free market, authoritarian regimes would inevitably fall and be replaced by democracies. It turns out they were wrong.than democracies.
We, as a country, have become so dependent on goods made in China that it is often quite impossible to find anything that hasn’t been made in whole or in part in China. Electric cars, electric batteries, our telecoms system, the construction of our nuclear powers stations, plastic goods and even the video doorbells in people’s homes. In fact, some secure government installationswhich are acknowledged as a threat by our own security services.
For example, in 2020, the UK Government was determined to award the 5G telecoms contract to Chinese owned Huawei. This was despite the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada making it clear that Huawei posed a threat to our systems. It was only because a number of us in Parliament opposed the Government’s plan to award it to Huawei that itSo while the UK’s relationship with China may have shifted in the last couple of years, still our government sends out too many mixed messages.
Beyond that there is their continuous and serious threat to Taiwan and their military takeover of the South China seas. At home their genocide of the Uyghurs, use of slave labour and their attacks on Christian worshippers. In Hong Kong there are crackdowns which involve arresting journalists and democracy campaigners.
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