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John Pilger warns against ‘campaign of vilification’ targeting China

BRITAIN should resist becoming a “cheap vassal state” of the United States following along with the new cold war on China, journalist and film-maker John Pilger said at the weekend.

Mr Pilger told an online meeting organised by Greater Manchester Stop the War Coalition that the cause of the new cold war was the US determination to remain the world’s only superpower.

“When you hear some of the American politicians and the so-called experts [rail against China], it is about saying ‘how dare they challenge Western superiority ... how dare they challenge our divine right to do as we wish in the world?”

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