UK has no place to lecture anyone else on economic management. The country has one of the lowest growth rates in Europe, has crashed exports to its biggest market, maintained imports by simply waiving customs checks opening up the domestic market for all kinds of fraud, has signed one-sided free trade deals for the newspaper headlines, introducing competition to those domestic producers for no equivalent gain for exp…
> also deciding to escalate hostilities with China, the world second largest economy After what Russia has done to Ukraine, I sincerely hope more democracies put values before trade. UK is doing what everyone else should be doing, but don't have the courage to. Not something to be ashamed of.
China is becoming powerful, so it is a threat to the established, Western, order and especially the supremacy of the US. That's the real issue. If tomorrow China became a democracy it wouldn't be any less of a threat, and in fact it might become a more formidable threat.