Recent events have exposed the folly of allowing China to become the world’s workshop. Its economic growth has produced military and political power that China is using with increasing confidence.

The West was recently forced to fight over medical supplies from the very country that caused the Covid-19 pandemic in the first place. It is impotent on the forced “re-education” of 1-million Uyghurs in China’s Xinjiang province, and powerless to stop the people of Hong Kong being stripped of the remnants of democracy they still have. ..

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