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    Quote Originally Posted by cyrille View Post
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    That's part of the script from Glavset..

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    Standing up to China post-Covid.

    Post-coronavirus, the UK must find some friends to stand up to China | Martin Kettle | Opinion | The Guardian

    It's come at quite a time for the UK, post-Brexit, to be looking for alliances to stand up to Chinese (and American) bullying without further shooting itself in the foot. I feel that the last paragraph sums up the quandary that the UK finds itself in at the moment quite well, but I'd be very interested to see which way India would turn.

    "The answer for a medium-sized power like Britain is to have an alliance-based and institutions-based containment strategy and to work with Germany, France, the EU, India, Australia and others to achieve a relationship with China that rejects both Chinese and American bullying. The problem is that this is the one thing that this government, besotted with its self-image of Britain as an independent, buccaneering world player, cannot bring itself to do."

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    Quote Originally Posted by hallelujah View Post
    "The answer for a medium-sized power like Britain is to have an alliance-based and institutions-based containment strategy
    Like being part of a multi-nation alliance of like-minded countries with more economic clout than the US or China? Hmm . . . if only a thing like that existed.

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    We already have something like that in the UN, the Non-aligned nations. Thus far it isn't much of a Bloc at all- but it could be. The US, with it's typical bullying "you're either with Us(?) or against Us" attitude adopts the attitude they're a bunch of goddamn commies. Good, so that's half way there. When they can get the chinks to deride them too as a bunch of capitalist running dogs, the non-áligned nations are showing signs of being a real Bloc. And they should be, because if they can get their act together they are as significant as the US and China- and any sensible nation these days should know there is no real upside getting too deeply involved in their pissing contest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    and any sensible nation these days should know there is no real upside getting too deeply involved in their pissing contest.
    ...disagree: the upside includes benefits that are tangible: China buys a wide range of exports from those countries which support its policies; the US supplies a wide array of weaponry (and visas) to those allied with it...you pays yer money and takes yer choice...

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Like being part of a multi-nation alliance of like-minded countries with more economic clout than the US or China? Hmm . . . if only a thing like that existed.
    Yep. 2016 onwards will be some read in history classes of the future.

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