{"id":1007,"date":"2021-04-08T15:17:15","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2021-04-08T15:17:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T15:17:15","slug":"boris-johnson-desperately-needs-a-more-coherent-china-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/boris-johnson-desperately-needs-a-more-coherent-china-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Boris Johnson desperately needs a more coherent China strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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London (CNN)–<\/cite><\/strong>Like many of its global counterparts, the United Kingdom is in desperate need of a\u00a0China strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Many of the world’s middling to large economies have benefited from\u00a0inward Chinese investment\u00a0since the global financial crisis of 2008. For over a decade, China’s extraordinary wealth offered an obvious way out of recession when options for investment elsewhere were limited.<\/div>\n
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Fast forward to 2021, and the decision to woo an authoritarian government\u00a0with alleged ambitions\u00a0to challenge the United States as the primary global superpower looks na\u00efve.<\/div>\n
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China has become a hot issue in British politics over the past 12 months, as lawmakers and activists have become aware of how much the UK relies on a country that stands against many of the things that it claims to uphold. And many in London are worried that Prime Minister Boris Johnson\u00a0has neither the time nor imagination to adequately handle one of Britain’s greatest foreign challenges.<\/div>\n
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In recent months, Johnson has approved sanctions against Chinese officials over\u00a0human rights abuses in Xinjiang\u00a0and Hong Kong, and condemned China for retaliatory sanctions against British lawmakers. At the same time, however, he has also insisted he is “fervently Sinophile” and warned against starting a “new Cold War on China.”<\/div>\n