On April 27th local time, British Foreign Secretary Tras delivered a "pre-arranged hawkish speech" called by the British Financial Times at a dinner in London, pointing directly at China. She first said that " NATO must look around the world", then threatened to "take the initiative to prevent the threat from the Indo-Pacific", and then simply made the statement clear, claiming to "ensure that Taiwan can defend itself." It can be said that Tras' remarks are the most explicit and ambitious statements among American and Western politicians over some time ago.
reports pointed out that when Tras made the above remarks, NATO member states were discussing their new "strategic concept", to what extent should the emphasis be on "the security threat posed by China in the Indo-Pacific region", among NATO members There is a fierce debate. On the same day, the commander of the US Indo-Pacific Command also claimed that NATO is a good model for the "Indo-Pacific region" for countries that value "freedom". People are already familiar with this routine of cooperation between the United States and the United Kingdom.
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Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, some politicians in the United States and the West have been constantly distorting the facts and deliberately linking the Russian-Ukrainian conflict with the Taiwan issue, attempting to play the "Taiwan card" and "using Taiwan to control China." Including Tras herself, she used the Ukrainian situation to exaggerate the "China threat" long before the conflict occurred. She once sensationally "warned" that China might take advantage of the opportunity of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict to "launch an aggression in the Indo-Pacific region." This was severely criticized by former Australian Prime Minister Keating, who said she was simply "insanity" and suffered from "arrogance".
In the UK's foreign policy, there is indeed a kind of fanaticism now because of the Ukrainian crisis. Britain, which has "Brexit" and has a "special relationship" with the United States, believes that it has a more flexible position than the United States and EU , and often parrots its "integrity" and says something inconvenient for Washington . , do things that are inconvenient to do, and sometimes it can be more radical. Some London politicians are now increasingly treating this as uniqueness and superiority. It seems that the more they do, the more they can feel the warmth of the "Empire that never sets" in the past.
After Brexit, the UK has taken "Global Britain" as its strategic goal and wants to be a major country with leadership in the world. After several years of practice, the so-called "global Britain" seems to be just holding the United States tightly. Tras wants to build himself into "Contemporary Thatcher", but now he looks like "Director of the US State Department's Office in London." Since serving as British Foreign Secretary, Tras has been pointing fingers at China on almost all major issues involving China, including Taiwan, Hong Kong, Xinjiang, etc., and has followed Washington. The diplomatic pragmatism that the British have relished in is becoming increasingly declining. for opportunism and radicalism .
In Washington's redeployment of the global system, London is increasingly willing to be a "little pebble" that throws stones and asks for directions. In July last year, the United Kingdom sent the "Queen Elizabeth" aircraft carrier to South China Sea to swagger, but even a fleet could not be collected. It also relied on borrowing military aircraft from Italy and other countries to make up the numbers. It was ridiculed by many netizens as " "He looked pale." At the end of March this year, during his visit to India, Tras tried to "beat" India not to buy Russian oil, but was "slapped in the face" by Indian Foreign Minister Su Jiesheng on the spot. Su Jiesheng said that Europe was the big buyer of Russian oil, and then rejected the British side's unreasonable request.
While its strength continues to decline, some British and American politicians began to fantasize about "mind control", which is to re-establish the global "superiority" of Anglo-Saxon civilization. Tras herself is not hiding about this, claiming in a speech last year that Britain does not need to feel guilty about its colonial history, but should be proud of her "identity". Because of this, although British politicians have recently taken turns to win over India, emphasizing the special connection between Britain and India, and praising India with various nice words, Indian public opinion has responded plainly to this, saying that Britain still has a colonial mentality.
is actually more than India. A series of small circle activities carried out by Britain and the United States under the so-called "common values". The cultural core of Anglo-Saxon supremacy has been recognized by more and more countries. The Tlass wants to bring NATO to Asia, and their attempts to disrupt the Pacific are destined to fail. And seeing China as a "systemic competitor" must be a major misjudgment in the "Global UK" strategy.
Source: Global Network WeChat official account
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