Does China care what Britain thinks?
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In 2010, David Cameron and George Osborne ushered in what they called \\u2018a golden era\\u2019 with China, the world\\u2019s rising superpower. They argued that Britain could be China\\u2019s best friend in the West. Thirteen years later, after a global pandemic, up to a million interned in Xinjiang, and a Communist Party General Secretary seemingly keen to roll back democratic progress in the mainland and in Hong Kong, that policy looks ill-thought-out, at best. But are we at risk of swinging the other direction now, going from ignorance to hysteria within a handful of years? Did we get China wrong, and do we keep getting China wrong? Is Britain now losing influence in China?
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\\nOn this episode, live from Conservative party conference, I\\u2019m joined by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Sophia Gaston, Head of Foreign Policy at Policy Exchange, and Sam Hogg, editor of the Beijing to Britain newsletter.
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\\nOn this episode, live from Conservative party conference, I\\u2019m joined by Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, Sophia Gaston, Head of Foreign Policy at Policy Exchange, and Sam Hogg, editor of the Beijing to Britain newsletter.