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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?”
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
JENNY CLEGG reports from a Chinese peace conference bringing together defence ministers, US think tanks and global South leaders, where speakers warned that the erosion of multilateralism risks regional hotspots exploding into wider war
The US’s bid for regime change in the Islamic Republic has become more urgent as it seeks to encircle and contain a resurgent China, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ