Without the support of China's huge market, Britain's trillion pound export target is just a dream

Author: Assassin

A few days ago, the outgoing British army's top commander and British Defence Chief of Staff, Carter, in his last speech before leaving office, openly regarded Russia as Britain's "most serious threat". Carter claimed: "Russia is our worst threat, and managing it well is the top priority on my list."

Carter did not mention China in his speech, let alone regard China as a British "threat." However, in order to incite anti-China sentiment at home, some British media have insisted on politically tying China with the "Russian threat theory". According to the Global Network reported on the 27th, the British "Daily Telegraph" directly "bundled and hyped" China and Russia: threats like Russia and China are replacing religious extremism and becoming the main national security priority of the British government.

Not only is the BBC going to use filters to concoct fake news, but the Daily Telegraph's means of creating fake news to play up the "China threat theory" are not far behind. Compared with Russia, China is thousands of miles away in Asia, as long as the British aircraft carrier does not go to the South China Sea or the Taiwan Strait to make trouble, the People's Liberation Army is too lazy to fight with this old empire, where is the "China threat"?

China is unlikely to pose a "threat" to British security, but some in Britain would rather use their knees than their brains to think about things. The UK's National Cyber Security Centre also recently published a report, falsely claiming that "China has launched cyber attacks around the world in recent years and is very interested in British trade secrets." The report also calls on the Johnson administration to strengthen cooperation with allies to jointly address the challenges posed by China's technological rise.

Look closely, the tone of the report of the British National Cyber Security Center is actually a copy of the relevant arguments of the United States smearing China, and even the punctuation marks are too lazy to change. It can be seen from this that within Britain, some anti-China forces are dancing with the baton of the United States, and the vital interests of the country and the people are simply not within the consideration of these people.

The so-called "Chinese military threat", the British who have a slightly more normal brain, know that this is a non-existent problem. Prime Minister Johnson, who is britain's family member, knows the stakes even more: to make enemies with China is only bad for Britain and not good.

These major economies, including the United States and the European Union, dare not play decoupling from China in the economic and trade fields. The current British economy is in the worst state of recession in 300 years, which is not an ordinary obstacle for the British government to achieve its future economic goals.

After Brexit, the United Kingdom embarked on a global deployment strategy and shouted the slogan of "Global Britain". In addition to using the aircraft carrier fleet to demonstrate the "global deployment" capability, regaining the tradition and characteristics of the trade nation is also an important part of Johnson's "global strategic deployment". According to the Global Network reported on the 28th, the British Ministry of Trade recently released the export strategy document of "Made in the UK, Sold globally", setting an ambitious target of reaching trillion pounds in exports in 2030.

Johnson's slogans are loud, but the actual operation is not an easy task, especially in the context of continued tensions between China and the UK. Without the support of China's large market of 1.4 billion people, I really don't know where the UK's trillion pounds of goods are exported every year. In this regard, the Global Network quoted experts as saying: Unless the United Kingdom can abandon its ideological bias and cooperate more closely with China. Otherwise, the country's trillion-pound export target could be just a dream.

Obviously, without the global multilateralization system dominated by China, the Uk's goal of achieving exports of trillions of pounds by 2030 is to get out of the current recession, and it is estimated that it is enough! As a result, Johnson's recent approach to China has been as cautious as Carter's, in an effort to avoid escalating tensions between China and the UK by some ideological gestures.

To this end, the Johnson administration recently vetoed a Xinjiang-related motion in the country's parliament and began to play Tai Chi with Biden on the issue of "diplomatic boycott" of the Beijing Winter Olympics. This series of signs suggests that Johnson seems to be well aware that the achievement of his trillion export target depends largely on the quality of future Sino-British relations. Therefore, Johnson's recent slightly softened China policy is obviously a concern that the further deterioration of Sino-British relations will have a fatal impact on his trillion-pound export target.

However, some anti-China forces in Britain who are intent on harming the country and the people will stab them in Sino-British relations from time to time, which is the main reason why the relations between the two countries have always been highly feverish. Therefore, unless Johnson has enough political courage to eliminate the current anti-China political atmosphere in China and create opportunities for improving Sino-British relations and deepening bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Otherwise, what grand goals, everything is empty talk.