The prime minister of the United Kingdom has directly accused China and a number of other” axis of authoritarian says,” including Russia, of undermining American values and safety.
Rishi Sunak’s most controversial remarks to date against Communist China, a nation the American government had constantly rejected as a bad actor, may have been in a stump speech from Monday morning.
The address appears to be the beginning of a general election campaign for a date that has n’t even been announced, and it portrays the world as a more hostile place that needs strong British leadership, which Sunak claims he will provide despite all available evidence.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) November 14, 2023
” An shaft of autocratic states like Russia, Iran, North Korea, and China,” Sunak said at the Tory-friendly Policy Exchange think tank now, regularly using the word in both the conversation and in subsequent questions:” The dangers that threaten our nation are true, and are increasing in number.” The nation is currently in “one of the most harmful intervals we have always known,” he said, and these says are “working up to destroy us and our values.”
The Prime Minister frequently addressed safety issues and military spending, evidently rejecting a fact that has been held for a while in Westminster, including the economy, health support, and education, despite being broad-ranging and covering a wide range of topics that would be expected from an election speech.
He said:
…because sadly, we are living in a more dangerous world than the Cold War, and I think that the next few years will be one of the most dangerous times for our nation to ever experience. An Axis of authoritarian states, including Iran, Russia, North Korea, China, are assertively acting and threatening our interests both domestically and internationally in a more connected world…
I think the next few years will be both the most dangerous and transformational for our nation in a long time. Everything we’ve seen in the world from today through the last week through the last few months indicates that there is a tremendous danger [coming ] ahead.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) January 16, 2024
The British government is responding to the comments, which are coming just days after China is all but accused of hacking into a Ministry of Defense database and stealing the private information of tens of thousands of former and current soldiers. The government, which was all but accused, was crucial because it officially claimed that the hack was the” suspected work of a malign actor” while allegedly disclosing to the friendly press that the perpetrator was China.
Given that those economies are so heavily dependent on Chinese exports, the United Kingdom and many other Western nations are reluctant to speak out more strongly about its aggression or at least purposefully undermining behavior.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) May 7, 2024
The Houthi Red Sea attacks, the Chinese Coronavirus lockdowns, and then the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Houthi Red Sea attacks all revealed the extent to which Western nations are so dependent on exports of both finished goods and raw materials. China is already the European Union’s largest trading partner globally.
In 2020, a British government study found the country was reliant on China for 71″ critical goods” including drugs, electronics, and raw materials.’ Project Defend ‘ was established in April 2020 as a” cross- government” project aiming to strengthen the resilience of the UK’s critical global supply chains”.
The government claimed that “UK supplies of critical goods like medicines, minerals, and semiconductors will be safeguarded” and that it was working with major UK businesses to provide them with regular updates on emerging supply chain risks in a report from January 2024.
According to the statement, the government will establish a” Critical Imports Council” to collaborate with businesses to “identify risks to critical imports and develop a plan of action.” Four years later, however, little seems to have changed significantly, and much of the rest of the West still relies on imported Chinese-made goods, which limits the ability for the West to hold China accountable for its belligerent behavior, just as Russia-dependent Germany was with Moscow before the Ukraine War.
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— Breitbart London ( @BreitbartLondon ) May 25, 2020
