THE UK IS CHANGING PARTNERS

AFTER EIGHT YEARS of bashing China on behalf of Washington, the UK is changing partners. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is arriving in Beijing with metaphorical flowers and a box of chocolates.

Something had to be done. Relations have been so bad, that the UK is today the only major western European country whose residents need a visa to go to China.

This was not Starmer’s fault. His predecessors have a lot to answer for.

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THE SECRET BACKSTORY

The British government had a positive relationship with the Asian “factory of the world” until 2018, when things turned seriously bad.

That was when the CIA organized a series of meetings with MI6 and the other members of the five eyes’ intelligence-sharing group, plus France and Germany.

The CIA warned the spy chiefs that the west would lose its global economic dominance unless concerted action was taken against China, which was rising peacefully at a surprising rate.

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BRAINWASHING THE BRITISH PUBLIC

Shortly afterwards, the security services started feeding multiple anti-China narratives to the compliant UK media.

- “Huawei equipment is spying on you”

- “The Chinese are genociding the Uyghurs”

- “TikTok is spyware”

- “The Tibetans have been enslaved”

- “Electric cars can be controlled by Beijing”

- “The Chinese are killing Hong Kong”

and so on.

It was a mishmash of lies and exaggerations that did not remotely present a fair picture, but all of it was duly promoted by the hysterical, pearl-clutching mainstream media.

The "let's demonize China" operation was backed up by US and UK military intelligence services. The UK 77th Brigade, and the US 4th and 8th Psychological Operations Groups within the U.S. Army Special Operations Command, both have “poisoning by social media” operations.

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RELATIONS SPOILED BY WASHINGTON DC

To make things worse for the UK, America’s CIA-adjacent operation known as N.E.D. financed the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, which churned out an endless stream of anti-China quotes from London, which the papers duly printed—while hiding from readers the group’s US origins and funding.

These actions by Starmer’s predecessors hurt Britain in numerous ways, but two elements in particular are worth highlighting.

The needless removal of Huawei 5G hardware left the UK with the worst internet in the whole of Europe—an incalculable level of harm to British business that has still not been rectified.

Second, the government broke its contract with the efficient Chinese companies building UK nuclear facilities, paying them 100 million pounds sterling to go away—and leaving the British people with a nuclear power project that was horribly late and over-budget: the last thing you need when your citizens are complaining about the price of energy.

Whose fault was all this? First, the Americans, for demanding all this needless action against China. (Former British minister Vince Cable has good stories about being shouted at by US envoys.)

Second, the UK Conservative Party for putting the orders of their US counterparts above the needs of the citizens of their own nation.

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TIME TO CHANGE PARTNERS

But in recent weeks, there has been a dramatic change. One notable sign of this is the UK spy chiefs’ decision to do a U-turn to okay the building of a Chinese embassy (which, despite the media claims, is a reasonable size, and considerably smaller than western embassies in other countries).

A second notable sign is the disappearance of the CIA’s mandatory references to “human rights violations” that normally MUST be printed with all UK mainstream media articles about China.

We have reached a stage where associating the west with “freedom, democracy and human rights” cannot be done without irony.

Thank God. Sometimes, if you wait long enough, a truer picture emerges.