Is Starmer Beijing's Puppet?
The UK's dangerous dalliance with China is being laid bare. And it makes for alarming reading.
The question of how much of a threat China poses to the West has never been fully answered. But consensus among most intelligence officials suggests that Beijing isn't just an economic might to be reckoned with, but a growing military power forming an axis with hostile states, that not only bends the rules but breaks them with impunity and happily conducts predatory or parasitic industrial relations with nations, that corrode prosperity and weakens society from the inside out.
If anything should have woken up the world to China's capacity for malevolence and deceit, Covid was that moment. At the very least China lied about its origins and thus cost the world critical time in figuring out how to handle the pandemic. At the very worst, it was all done with intent. The fact that we cannot say for sure typefies the disturbingly enigmatic role China plays on the world stage, particularly in the context of its might and potential.
The proposition that Beijing doesn’t play fair is flagrantly apparent. I first became alive to China's cancerous presence while working in Ghana, just after living in Shanghai. The depths to which China was wilfully undercutting a third world country in its own backyard, destroying its domestic market while robbing it of resource riches, was startling to me twenty years ago. It staggers me that successive British governments continue to play with fire.
Under Prime Minister Keir Starmer's Labour government, the UK's relationship with China has veered into perilous territory.
What Starmer touts as "pragmatic engagement" increasingly resembles appeasement, prioritizing short-term economic gains over long-term national security and democratic values. The big question is - Is Starmer China's stooge?
I lay bare the true extent of Labour's Chinese fixation. And how dangerous this could be.