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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
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
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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