After years of bickering with China, the UK’s relationship with the superpower is thawing – and a certain someone is getting jealous, writes Ash Sarkar.
The tabloids are very mad about Starmer’s deal, and that softens me a bit on it. The fact that it’s not a flashy deal is actually alright by me.
Background though, I was at the Battle of Seattle as a kid - I still have that jaundiced eye towards trade with China, and I think the decades since have proved the protestors largely correct.
I didn’t say I was - at this point it’d be closing the gates after the horse has bolted. We rely on Chinese labour and manufacturing now, now hardly anything is made in America, and the downward spiral of empire is playing out exactly as it has several times before.
I’m not shedding any tears for the American empire (far from it), but the anarchists and labour protestors who thought it was a bad idea to let China into the WTO over two decades ago are not surprised by how it all turned out.
The tabloids are very mad about Starmer’s deal, and that softens me a bit on it. The fact that it’s not a flashy deal is actually alright by me.
Background though, I was at the Battle of Seattle as a kid - I still have that jaundiced eye towards trade with China, and I think the decades since have proved the protestors largely correct.
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I didn’t say I was - at this point it’d be closing the gates after the horse has bolted. We rely on Chinese labour and manufacturing now, now hardly anything is made in America, and the downward spiral of empire is playing out exactly as it has several times before.
I’m not shedding any tears for the American empire (far from it), but the anarchists and labour protestors who thought it was a bad idea to let China into the WTO over two decades ago are not surprised by how it all turned out.