Dominic Raab is apparently very unhappy
with the Chinese government. They signed a formal treaty with the UK a mere 36
years ago and, now that it no longer suits them, they are unilaterally acting
in breach of it. The UK’s response is to seek the support of all of its
partners and friends to act jointly to hold China to the terms of the agreement,
because it seems that that is what happens when one party to a formal
international treaty deliberately acts in contravention thereof.
Some unkind people might be wondering how Raab
can say any of this with a straight face given the UK’s decision to
unilaterally breach the terms of an agreement which it signed a mere 8 months
previously, but that is to miss the point. The situation is obviously entirely
different. Firstly, the Chinese are foreigners who live a very long way away. Secondly,
they just don’t understand their proper place in the world. The UK, on the
other hand, is not only British, but a ‘global sovereign power’ (© Boris
Johnson, 2019) to boot, and therefore uniquely entitled to do as it wishes. It
is entirely proper that the UK should gather its friends* around it to enforce the
terms of one treaty, but equally entirely outrageous that the EU countries
should act in concert to enforce the terms of another.
How lucky we are to have government
ministers who can see the distinction so clearly and can explain it in terms
that even China should be able to understand. And if they don’t, well the UK
can always send a gunboat
or two…
*Any suggestion that this is a small and
diminishing group is as unworthy as it is accurate.
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Yet another manifestation of the madness that is endemic throughout this Tory government and much of that segment of the British electorate that blindly supports its ridiculous behaviours. I used to think that UK governments would not be reduced to Trump like behaviours. I now think that perhaps it was Trump that was an avid follower of Brit antics in politics. Plumbing new depths with each passing week.
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