Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss has warned that the rise of Communist China is a “threat” to the “free world”, and urged more military alliances and economic solidarity to contain it.
“President Xi [Jinping] has been very clear — it’s his ambition for China to have control of Taiwan and in my view this would be disastrous,” she said of the Middle Kingdom’s hard-left despot.
“We must ensure that Taiwan is able to defend itself, and we must work together across the free world to do this… I would like to see a more developed Pacific defence alliance alongside even closer co-operation between NATO and our Pacific allies,” she continued, further suggesting that “the G7 plus its allies act as an economic NATO” to prevent China’s communist regime from using its economic might to cow other states.
“We could move to an economic Article 5, where the ‘one for all, all for one’ principle is wielded in defence of our values,” she suggested, in reference to Article 5 of the NATO theory which stipulates, in theory, that if one alliance member is attacked all the other members must come to its defence.
Some may be concerned that such a scheme could not only be used against the likes of China, however, but against country’s moving to protect local jobs against globalisation, or against countries with national conservative governments out of step with the Western liberal-left mainstream, like Hungary and Poland.
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