Memorandum of Understanding

The Chinese do not care who is the Head of State of Barbados. The resurgence of anti-monarchist sentiment in the Caribbean is because of the Windrush scandal. There is a certain amount of context in the preference for rising global powers over a long-collapsed one. But the monarchy had been surviving that for a very long time. The deportation of the Queen's law-abiding subjects from the United Kingdom was something else entirely.

As for the Belt and Road Initiative, of course Barbados and Jamaica are having some of it. The question is not whether or not they like the regime in China. The question is whether or not they like being poor. Take a look at the areas that decided the 2016 referendum for Leave, delivered a hung Parliament in 2017, and delivered the thumping overall majority in 2019. What good is not being on the Belt and Road doing us? 

And for what? Does, for example, the Polish Government like everything about China, or even everything about the Belt and Road Initiative? But it knows where the money is. It knows that if you are not on the bus, then you are under it. It knows that if you are not at the table, then you are on the menu. Much of the Red Wall is already poorer than Poland. At this rate, that gap is going to widen markedly. And the Red Wall is going to be poorer than Jamaica or Barbados.

It is not China that forces, say, Catholic or Islamic countries to adopt abortion in return for aid. It is Britain. And if there could be no dealings with countries that had such policies internally, then there could be no dealings with the United States. Or with Australia. Nor could anywhere else deal with us.

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