The US exerts influence over its allies by manipulating their “civil society,” – the paradigm of public debate and focus – towards its goals. It does this by utilizing its resources, groups, funding, NGOs, think tanks and associated journalists in order to establish a news cycle favorable to itself, playing up the issues that suit its agenda, and playing down those that do not. Through this method, Washington has been able to weaponize public opinion in the West and turn it against China, creating a hostile climate irrespective of what the given country’s government might intend, and therefore changing the political incentives for all involved....
It is precisely because of these circumstances that London has found it nearly impossible to pursue its own independent engagement with Beijing, and has capitulated on every public disagreement it has had with the US on China policy. For example, the government wanted Huawei to participate in the UK’s 5G network and cleared it as safe, only to then make a U-turn because of American pressure and suddenly brand it as a “national security risk.” ....
The UK government does not control the terms of any engagement it might like to have with Beijing, and even Rishi Sunak himself, although privately more dovish than someone like Liz Truss, is blatantly open to the idea of using China bashing and paranoia for political gain when he gets the chance. This is a feature of the post-Boris Johnson political consensus in the Conservative Party. Likewise, London is pursuing a militarist, “gunboat diplomacy” stance by participating in the US “Indo-Pacific” strategy of containing Beijing. RT
Above is from an article published in RT titled, 'The British are showing signs of goodwill to China, but they aren't the ones calling the shots' by Timur Fomenko, a political analyst. The Brits are still acting high and mighty as if they are still an empire. They have lost all their senses of propriety and reality that Britain is now just a few small islands and would soon be just one island, England, minus Scotland, Ireland and even Wales. They are acting and talking big to China but the reality is that they are just a used can to be kicked around by the Americans, doing the bidding of the Americans.
Their bad behaviour, acting like a school bully, is laughable. China is the one that is calling the shot. China does not need Britain but the British need China and the Chinese market badly. China could simply switch off its relations with Britain and find a replacement in Europe to serve China's interest.
The Brits have foolishly cut off its ties with EU and hoping that it could build better ties around the world like the former British Empire. This is fat hope. The rest of the world also do not need Britain as their main trading partner is China, not Britain. And Britain can no longer loot the resources of countries of the world at will. Britain has to compete and provide the best terms for trade. But what has Britain to offer to the world today? Absolutely nothing, maybe football.
The Brits stole 45 trillion in US$ or British Pound from India.
ReplyDeleteThe Brits were estimated to have killed more than 150 million Indians during their colonisation of India.
Lucky for India, it had a large population and Indians were not 'genocided' to extinction. Otherwise there will just be reservations for them high in the Himalayas. Hope the Indians know their history.
Aiyo Anon 10.42
ReplyDeleteReservations at the Himalayas will spell troubles for China.
Now already Borders disputes which are rightly owned by China.
If their millions were to exile into China cannot think the unthinkable.
Wah, devastated.
Even some Borders inhabitants yearned for China's controls and administrations.
They said if under India- Complete Disasters.
Britain's PM is Indian, Deputy PM is Indian(just forced to resigned), FM also Indian.
ReplyDeletePM of Scotland is Pakistanis
PM of Ireland is Indian.
The takeover of UK is complete. Red Dot?
ReplyDeleteNot to worry..UK got a very strong sinkieland (which can punch above it weight) supporting behind it..with world best talent running sinkieland, HK can be taken over again by sinkies if UK ask it to do...haha
ReplyDeleteHi SinkiesLand President paying homage to Prince Charles now going Coronation as King Charles.
ReplyDeleteStill had colonial mentality even independence sixty odd years ago.
Still Commonwealth or Wealth for the King?
Anyway. Emil Cosman favourite word She is going on happy tours as her reign is going to be over soon.
Just like that Nancy PepsiCola.
Sinkies Land one hundred percent bananas.
UK takeover by India already done deal, why still talking about coronation of a King? They should install a 'Mahal' Rajah instead. Then all the dignitaries will be eating out of banana leaves, and using hands instead of utensils, LOL. Time for the UK to follow austerity measures to get use to it.
ReplyDeleteHonestly, people care a shit about the coronation. Even the Brits say it is a waste of time. But our Istana Deity will be there to give 'In Principle' support I suppose. Red Dot is very 'Principled' country.
Commonwealth Indigenous leaders have demanded formal apologies from Britain’s King Charles III for “centuries of racism” and the “legacy of genocide” perpetrated by the British Crown.
ReplyDeleteIndigenous representatives from 12 Commonwealth nations called on the 74-year-old British monarch to start a process toward “a formal apology and for a process of reparatory justice to commence” in a letter sent to him just three days prior to his luxurious coronation celebration in London despite the country’s record cost-of-living crisis.
The signatories of the letter, which could sour the build-up to this weekend’s coronation, also called for financial reparations by redistributing the wealth of the British crown and the return of stolen cultural treasures and human remains.
The letter — titled “apology, reparation, and repatriation of artifacts and remains” — has been signed by representatives of Antigua and Barbuda, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Australia, the Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
In Australia, Indigenous people were massacred by British colonizers and driven off their lands, as well as several Caribbean nations once plundered for slaves.
“We, the undersigned, call on the British Monarch, King Charles III, on the date of his coronation being May 6, 2023, to acknowledge the horrific impacts on and legacy of genocide and colonization of the Indigenous and enslaved peoples,” the letter read.
The signatories, who said they had banded together to help their people “recover from centuries of racism, oppression, colonialism and slavery”, noted that King Charles III had told the Commonwealth heads of government meeting back in June 2022 that acknowledging wrongs of the past was a “conversation whose time has come.” The letter asks that the king “immediately start the conversation about slavery’s enduring impact.”
They also asked the British monarch for an immediate commitment to discussions about reparations for “the oppression of our peoples, plundering of our resources, denigration of our culture and to redistribute the wealth that underpins the crown back to the peoples from whom it was stolen.”
The British Museum is home to around 8 million objects. The reality that many of these artefacts – around 99 percent of which are not placed on public display, but hoarded away in the institution's private archives – were forcibly taken has led to decades-long demands for their restitution
These artifats are what has been well preserved and on show. What about other things like gold, precious stones and things like mineral resources and food stolen and shipped from India at a time when Indians were facing starvation. What about artifats stolen and now kept by rich individuals?
ReplyDeleteForget about them returning those stolen artifats. Will a thief return what he stole? They will just pass laws to forbid restitution. That is their 'Rules Based Law'.
King Charles coronation? As Emil Cosman commented, nobody cares the fxxk.
ReplyDeleteLittle Britain so pitiful nowadays that they need to splash big on the coronation of a new King that is not beloved by the people. Spending big during a recession where the locals have to rely on food banks to survive isn't going to endear the new King to his subjects.
ReplyDeleteThe Brits finally realised they have virtually close to zero industrial manufacturing base, have eff-ed up Brexit, burned bridges with EU, no longer looked up by previous colonies, cant do business with global south (what can they really sell that's better & cheaper than EU / US or even CN), uncontrolled rising inflation coupled with a tanking economy, a political class that doesn't care about the people or nation, with both major political parties ideologically like a uni-party that echo's US foreign policy.
Britain is truly eff-ed with no way out. Nobody will come to their rescue, not the previous colonies & especially not CN RU.
I for one will shed no tears to its demise.
Sunak is trying to spin it like what Indians do best, that no other country can do what Little Britain does with the 'Con the Nation' of their King.
ReplyDeleteI tend to agree. Which other country still retains a monarchy that sucks up public tax money to support a useless figurehead and the whole entourage of parasites, and needing to be saved by God. And an outdated, frivolous national anthem that says it all. God is asked only to protect that figurehead, not the people. Selfishness knows no bounds for the shameless.