Rishi Sunak has said China poses a 'systemic challenge' to the West, branding the UK's former approach to Beijing as 'naive'
Picture: GettyRishi Sunak has amped up his rhetoric on China, saying "the naïve idea" that trade with the country would lead to social and political reform is over.
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"We recognise China poses a systemic challenge to our values and interests, a challenge that grows more acute as it moves towards even greater authoritarianism. His comments come after Chinese police launched a show of force across the country as they tried to head off more protests against the state's rigid zero-Covid policies in one of the most extraordinary displays of civil disobedience the nation has seen for decades.
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