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The fightback: it’s time for the West to take on China

Western democracies must unite against China’s economic bullying

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

3 April 2021

9:00 AM

Boris Johnson says it is a mistake to ‘call for a new Cold War on China’. Yet China is, in many ways, a more formidable foe than the Soviet Union ever was. It is more integrated into the world trading system and its economic model is less flawed. This gives it a commercial pull in the West that the USSR never had.

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