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British war-hawks’ new flirtation with Taiwan is bad news
KENNY COYLE explains that the recent British-Taiwanese all-party parliamentary group visit to the contested island is part of a drive to get involved in a conflict Britain had the good sense to abandon in the 1970s
Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen speaks by phone with the Czech Republic's President-elect Petr Pavel in Taipei, Taiwan, January 30, 2023
Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge — yet anti-war and anti-imperialist sentiments are also burgeoning anew, writes ANDREW MURRAY
As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
IN British colonial days, there was a derogatory term in banking circles to refer to stock traders and dealers who left the City of London and migrated to Britain’s lucrative imperial possession in China: the acronym used was “Filth” — Failed in London Try Hong Kong.
With their allies in Hong Kong hamstrung by the belated introduction of the National Security Law, which has uprooted US- and British-sponsored political groups, a British-Taiwanese all-party parliamentary group delegation led by Tory MP Bob Stewart, but also including Labour MPs, has recently visited Taiwan.
“Failed in Hong Kong try Taiwan” doesn’t make for an easy acronym but it sums up the strategy of British imperialism about China today.
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