Liz Truss, who will become Britain’s next prime minister in six weeks, according to polls, said the UK “must take really tough steps” on companies like TikTok and China, which are on their way to becoming the world’s largest economy. because the West “supports” them.
Former Chancellor Rishi Sunak and Foreign Minister Liz Truss, who both want to become the UK’s next prime minister, discussed the Chinese threat in a televised debate Monday night, and both spoke harshly about Beijing.
Truss said the West should learn a lesson when it realizes that it cannot stand up to Ukraine against Russia as Europe has become dependent on Moscow for energy. During the discussion, Sunak described China as a threat to national security and said Britain should stand up for its values.
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The Chinese government responded in typical fashion to the leadership’s statements by issuing a party-controlled editorial. Global Times He accused both candidates of promoting China as a threat to distract from domestic problems, and called the race for the next prime minister a “ridiculous campaign”.
When asked directly by a BBC presenter in a televised debate, rival Liz Truss, who was chosen to replace Boris Johnson as leader, said she would buy Chinese software like TikTok. He told the audience, “We really need to crash these companies. [Tik Tok] and we should limit the amount of technology exports to authoritarian regimes.”
To the objections that China is about to become the world’s largest economic superpower, Truss said it was inevitable and was the West’s business. He continued: “I’ve discussed this with our allies in the G7, together we represent 50% of global GDP. I don’t think it’s inevitable for China to become the world’s largest economy, in fact, we let that happen.”
Looking ahead, Truss linked the current situation in Russia with a theoretical open Chinese problem, where Western countries would not be able to respond to foreign invasion as they would be completely dependent on imports from this country. Such warnings may have a familiar tone: Former US President Donald Trump made similar warnings during his presidency that Germany would sell its sovereignty to Russia for cheap energy, and was literally mocked, but his predictions proved correct.
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Truss told the BBC panel: “…We must not repeat the mistake we made in Russia. Be strategically dependent on Russia. And now we are faced with energy costs. We cannot be strategically dependent on China… We must learn from the mistakes we made when Europe became dependent on Russian oil and gas. We will not let that happen in China. Freedom is a price to be paid.”
Sunak, who is often seen as vulnerable to China in this race, also intervened, saying that China is a threat to Britain. After a social media post by his team earlier in the day calling China “our number one threat”, the former chancellor said on Monday night: “We must recognize that China is a threat to our national security, our economic security. … protect our values, take care of our values, protect our country from threats.”
Sunak promised to take action against China if he becomes prime minister. “As Prime Minister, I will look closely at standing up for our values and protecting ourselves from these threats because it is the right thing to do for our security,” he said.
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Despite recent harsh rhetoric about China, a real change in the UK, where pro-Beijing slave politics was the government’s default during the David Cameron years, both Altar and Truss dispelled skepticism and allowed China to buy into the latter. Britain. As Sunak noted in the discussion, Truss praised the “golden age” of Anglo-Chinese relations in recent years and discussed 15th World China Entrepreneurship Conference 2019.
The altar has many past forms and was supplanted by China just a few days ago. Global Times As Beijing’s preferred candidate for Britain’s next prime minister.
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