China has been in news continuously for all the wrong reasons, since Donald Trump became US president and went on a crusade to protect US economy against highly subsidised imports from China, that include steel, consumer goods, electrical appliances, animal feed and much more, as US has unsustainable £430 billion, ever widening trade gap that could reduce US to “Financial Banana Republic!”
If US was a public listed company or an individual, it would have gone bankrupt long time ago. Britain’s financial health is no better than that of US, with ever widening trade-gap, which may get worse in view of Brexit fiasco.
While US woke up to Chinese menace, EU, Europe and especially Britain were sleep-walking into disaster, unable and unwilling to acknowledge Chinese threat not only on the economic front but also on spying, trying to obtain latest advancement, achievement on research and technical front that would give China upper hand whose aim is to colonise the world economically, as well as threaten and subjugate neighbouring countries like India and South Pacific Rim Nations like Vietnam and Philippines, especially Japan who after WW2 has become a pacifist nation, under American protection.
Chinese firm Huawel who is world leader in IT, involved in cutting-edge 5G mobile network to be rolled out in Britain next year, has raised concern here as well as in America about the suitability of Huawel who is closely linked with Chinese Communist government, fearing that equipment supplied by Huawel may be used for industrial spying, China dismissing Britain’s concern as groundless, typical “British Pride and Prejudice” attitude! Britain’s Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson is not convinced, putting new 5G network in quandary, predicament!
In view of China’s growing hostility towards its neighbours and colonising South China Sea, threatening free passage in international waters, Williamson’s concern is more than well founded. Recently India, US, Japan and Australia but not Britain, conducted joint naval exercise in Arabian Sea, off the coast of India, in recognition of Chine threat to freedom of shipping. It is time for Western nations, especially EU to be on guard and less dependent on China, especially in cut-edge information technology and reduce trade gap before sleep-walking into obviation!
Bhupendra M. Gandhi
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