China is a threat. It is trying to subvert the international system. Our best chance to avoid both dependency and war is to stand up for ourselves now, minimise our dependency and strengthen our alliances.
If you are desperate to hear the defining judgement of any party leader in twenty four hours on unfolding world affairs, I suspect it’s largely so you can enthusiastically condone or condemn the response for political purposes, and not much more.
Our government has calculated that enfranchising 1.5 million teenagers will deliver more Labour votes but they might just go to the far left or Reform.
The fiction grew up that Chinese companies were ordinary firms, interested in making money and independent of politics. This was, to put it bluntly, unforgivably naive. To expect these companies, dependent on a dictatorship, to act independently lacks credibility.
In the last Parliament many persuaded the Conservative Government not only that we needed a more robust approach to China but we needed a more coherent one too. With the advent of a Labour Government, we appear to have given up on that entirely.
This idea that democracy is alien to Chinese culture? Look at Taiwan, one of Asia’s most successful, vibrant democracies, which has just completed another successful presidential election and transition.
With just three weeks left on the campaign trail, the clock is ticking. Up to 140,000 Hong Kongers voters, as well as other dissident communities and those with a keen interest in defending democracy, are watching.
He no doubt treats any talk of beefing up the European economy against Chinese action as nothing more than a paper tiger. He knows he has allies across Europe who can take down any action deemed hostile to the Middle Kingdom.
With the UK’s general election mere months away, it will be an uphill struggle to tackle the harms from AI-generated mis-and-disinformation. Nonetheless, we can learn from Taiwan’s experience.
As we vote by state, the national polling averages mean little. Drilling down to the swing states, it is crystal clear that if the election were held today, the former President would win a clear victory.
Its case is an attempt to divide the West in the guise of post-colonial ideology, but in the interests of actual imperialists in Moscow and Beijing.
The new Speaker of the House of Representatives must tread a tightrope – getting Democrats on side without alienating his divided Republican colleagues.
Political instability in America related to the legal cases against Donald Trump is the kind of phenomenon that a nation unfamiliar with democracy can misconstrue as weakness.
Whether it is foreigners at risk in China from the regime’s injustice – and “hostage diplomacy” – or the threat to our institutions at home, we need to wake up to the dangers of the Beijing dragon.
Becoming a ScaleUp Nation is not a slogan. It is an economic strategy for the next 10, 20, 50 years. It is how Britain competes with the US, China and the EU. And it requires that Conservative belief that Britain’s prosperity is built by those who combine innovation with investment