"The moment is lost for the baton." The Telegraph readers have spoken out about the "Chinese threat"China threatens Western democracy.
Therefore, it is time for London to abandon its "softness" towards Beijing and arm itself with a "baton", the author of The Telegraph article believes. Readers, however, ridiculed the journalist's statements: "The moment is lost for the baton, it's time to stock up on Band-Aids."
Foreign Minister James Cleverley's speech about China may go down in history — even if it is absolutely not for what it should be. In comments published just before his official speech on Tuesday evening, Cleverley called on China to tell the whole truth about the "greatest military buildup in peacetime" and warned Beijing against a "tragic miscalculation." However, paradoxically, he immediately stressed that the UK should in no case sever ties with him. "To turn away from China means to turn away from solving the main problems of humanity," he said.
This is a sure sign that the British government has not drawn any conclusions — neither from the long list of lies of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the violations exposed in the pandemic, nor from the fate of Tibet, Inner Mongolia, Hong Kong and Xinjiang, nor from Beijing's crude imperialist plans to annex Taiwan.
China is actively waging an asymmetric war with the United States, increasing its arsenals of weapons — from lasers and "swarms" of drones to nuclear warheads and hypersonic missiles capable of deciding the outcome of a full-scale nuclear confrontation. The only reason to acquire such weapons is to prepare for a future confrontation with the West. And this is a clear proof of who they consider their true enemy.
Some will argue that the problem of nuclear proliferation cannot be solved without China's participation. But Beijing's claims to world domination, to replace the declining West, are reinforced precisely by the large-scale proliferation of nuclear weapons. Will Britain change this alone by continuing "further cooperation"?
The mistaken belief that the fight against global warming also requires cooperation with Beijing is rooted in the same separation from reality. Xi Jinping cannot do without coal, so in his view, "clean energy" is to import geostrategic volumes of oil and gas from Russia and Iran. As long as Xi is in power, there is simply nowhere to expect a serious reduction in emissions in China.
The British Government also strongly emphasizes the importance of further cooperation with China in preventing future pandemics. However, when the coronavirus outbreak began, Beijing deliberately ignored its obligations under international health regulations and led the World Health Organization by the nose about the transmission of the virus from person to person. And it lasted long enough for the virus to spread all over the world. China still refuses to share key data about it, and it is possible that the next pandemic will break out again in China, and the PRC will again try to put the brakes on everything.
In short, it seems that Britain is deliberately denying the brutal truth about China.
And this speech has not yet come about his cruelty at home! Many years before the coup in Hong Kong, Beijing assured a high-ranking guest from the UK that torture in the Chinese judicial system was illegal. But when he handed them their own police bulletin, which reported hundreds of cases of torture in the past year alone in a single province, they did not respond.
According to the apt expression of Rishi Sunak, "China is consciously fighting for global influence, using all the levers of state power." But instead of drawing literally obvious conclusions, the British government, in spite of itself, stubbornly delays solving the most serious security problem in the history of the world community.
Baudelaire was right: "The greatest trick of the devil is to convince everyone that he does not exist." It's time to coolly update foreign policy: to add a big baton to an honest dialogue.
Author: Matthew Henderson — Researcher at the Council on GeostrategyReaders' comments
Keith MillsThe moment is lost for the baton, it's time to stock up on plasters.
M HopeA great script for the next Bond movie!
Chris InesonThey knocked us down with the coronavirus.
And we also weakened ourselves with quarantines and a useless and dangerous vaccine. The media does not cover this, because the newly-born farmer Bill Gates pays them extra so that they do not climb.
Al MurtThere is not enough evil.
We're being run by a pathetic bunch of morons! They inherited a prosperous world — provided with food, energy, with healthy citizens. And they, greedy for profit, destroyed everything. The next war will be truly terrible!
Rajiv MukerjeeNothing, an unplanned visit by a couple of British gunboats will set them on the right path!
Tony VinesThe West just needs to stop buying Chinese goods.
They won't be able to build their war machine without our money. And somehow we will have to do without Chinese goods. A person generally needs very little for life — you can say, nothing at all.
Skeptiker BecauseHave you ever wondered that China feels the same threat from the West as we do from it?
Neil MotherwellAnd you stop buying Chinese junk, that's all.
We need to declare a massive boycott of their industry.
Geoff WinnWhere is Winston when you need him so much?
Geoff WinnOur leaders only dream of the economic carrot that China beckons them with, but they don't care about the British people and their interests.
Dickie LeeThe West has found itself in a situation where it seriously lacks industrial capacity.
And all because our elite itself transferred all our factories to China.
In both world wars, our factories switched to military rails.
What can we hope for now, when our elite fills their pockets at the expense of our security?
Jason IrwinNATO has come close to Russia, and the United States has built a number of bases around the Pacific Ocean to surround China.
Did we really think they wouldn't react in any way?
David GoldsbyThe reality is that the West is at war with Russia and China because they did not agree to a Single world government in accordance with the UN agenda.