What a ridiculous person is Mike Pompeo. "What Would Maggie Have Done?" If Maoist China backed anything against the clients of the Soviet Union, then so did the Peking Plotter. From Mugabe, to Ceaușescu, to Pol Pot.
Poor old Julian Lewis may hiss the word "Communist" as if anyone still knew or cared what it meant, or as if very many people ever did, but China's "debt trap diplomacy" of today indicates that its ideology has not changed in thousands of years. The Emperors always gave more than could ever have been repaid, so that the beneficiaries would be forever in their debt. And here we are. The European Imperial Powers also went about their empire-building in much the resource-grabbing way that the Chinese are now doing.
The Chinese regime is ghastly, but we are actively allied to worse, and one of those, in particular, actively funds and directs terrorism both in China and in Britain. Most, if not all, of those people who are banged up in Xinjiang would also be banged up in Britain, at least in principle. We are not yet at the stage of bombing Xinjiang for the people whom we would lock up here, as we bomb Syria on their behalf. But the principle is the same. And as for the Dalai Lama.
Of course American big tech is already spying on us. Most of us have always simply assumed that. As flagships of American liberalism, the Silicon Valley giants are integral parts of their country's Deep State.
We are constantly told that the British economy is mostly services. But you can't service nothing. The stuff itself has to come from somewhere. By refusing to make anything very much anymore, we have created a situation in which we are bound to be dragged into other people's trade wars. Again, then, here we are.
Notice that Donald Trump not only demands that China cease engaging in industrial espionage (what does he or anyone else imagine that American or British spies do?), but also that it stop subsidising its State-owned and other industries. Let that message to the world be understood in all its chilling effect. And let it be rejected out of hand.
At hand, however, is help. Are there problems with the Belt and Road? Of course there are. But it is coming, and it is coming quickly. Be on the bus, or be under it. This way, we really would get manufacturing again, and no one would be able to tell us not to subsidise either that industry, or the things that made it possible, or the things that it made possible.
Next to no one in British politics understands any of this. Oddly enough, it has hitherto been George Osborne who has understood it best, although he never quite seemed to have joined the dots. Perhaps he simply never had the time. Jeremy Corbyn's circle, especially John McDonnell and those closest to him, might be there, or very nearly there. But they would still have the Parliamentary Labour Party to with which to contend.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
We are constantly told that the British economy is mostly services. But you can't service nothing. The stuff itself has to come from somewhere. By refusing to make anything very much anymore, we have created a situation in which we are bound to be dragged into other people's trade wars. Again, then, here we are.
Notice that Donald Trump not only demands that China cease engaging in industrial espionage (what does he or anyone else imagine that American or British spies do?), but also that it stop subsidising its State-owned and other industries. Let that message to the world be understood in all its chilling effect. And let it be rejected out of hand.
At hand, however, is help. Are there problems with the Belt and Road? Of course there are. But it is coming, and it is coming quickly. Be on the bus, or be under it. This way, we really would get manufacturing again, and no one would be able to tell us not to subsidise either that industry, or the things that made it possible, or the things that it made possible.
Next to no one in British politics understands any of this. Oddly enough, it has hitherto been George Osborne who has understood it best, although he never quite seemed to have joined the dots. Perhaps he simply never had the time. Jeremy Corbyn's circle, especially John McDonnell and those closest to him, might be there, or very nearly there. But they would still have the Parliamentary Labour Party to with which to contend.
Another hung Parliament is coming, however, and we need our people to hold the balance of power in it. It has become a local commonplace that I am on 30-30-30 with Labour and the Conservatives here at North West Durham, so that any one of us could be the First Past the Post. I will stand for this seat, if I can raise the £10,000 necessary to mount a serious campaign. Please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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