Next UK leader likely to aid U.S. in event of Taiwan contingency: experts

The American people do not want war any with anyone.depending on the British is a loser proposition

Is Beijing's endorsement a big advantage or turn-off for Sunak?

The endorsement that nobody wanted: China's largest state tabloid praises Rishi Sunak for his soft stance on Beijing and 'pragmatic view' on strengthening ties with the country

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11018929/Chinas-largest-state-tabloid-praises-Rishi-Sunak-soft-stance-Beijing-pragmatic-view.html

Is Beijing's endorsement a big advantage or turn-off for Sunak?

Squishy Rishi?

It does not appear things are going to get any more sensible in Great Britain anytime soon. Boris Johnson is going to be replaced as the Conservative Party Prime Minister by either a) a corrupt Indian with shady global finance connections or b) an incompetent Remain lunatic who does a convincing neocon impression.

137 Rishi Sunak

113 Liz Truss

105 Penny Mordaunt

Dominick Cummings clearly saw this coming, as he shared his thoughts on the leadership race, and the woman he dubbed The Human Hand grenade in particular, four days ago on his substack. Keep in mind that in spite of Sunak getting the most votes in every round, the early polls of the Tory MPs indicated that either Mordaunt or Truss would beat him in the final head-to-head competition. While those polls are not entirely reliable, one would have to say at this point that the highest probability outcome is that Britain will have a pro-EU globalist neocon warmonger at the helm before the autumn. Oh what fun, for every girl and boy...

I gave Truss the nickname ‘human hand grenade’ when she worked in the Department for Education. She said this week it was a ‘compliment’ because she gets things done. No. It was because she caused chaos and misery INSTEAD OF getting things done. Truss is the only minister I shouted at in No10. The reason was her compulsive pathological leaking. As soon as she left any meeting she would call people like Harry Cole (The Sun) and blurt out what had been said. This routinely caused chaos and often damaged the UK. I called her over to No10. I sat in that tiny little room near the Cabinet room next to the loos (G39). I said to her: what are you doing leaking everything, stop, focus on your real job where you’re failing to grip your department, focus on that… The eyes had a thousand yard stare. ‘What do you mean the real job?’ she said. It was pointless to go on. For her, leaking to the media was the ‘real’ job. And in many ways, inside the Simulation, it is the real job!

Boris is supporting Truss. Why? 1) He thinks it’s the best way to stop Sunak. 2) He knows Truss is mad as a box of snakes and is thinking, ‘there’s a chance she blows, there’s another contest and I can return’.

And with the human handgrenade, she may catastrophically escalate the war — remember she has defined the goal as pushing Russia out of Crimea, which if seriously attempted would be seen by the vast majority of Russians (including anti-Putin Russians) as an attempt to destroy Russia and could lead to nuclear weapons.

Dominick Cummings, 16 July 2022

Truss is fully on-board with both the EU and the NATO Expansionists, which suggests that the chances of the NATO-Russian war going thermonuclear hot will rise if she is elected PM.

Buckle up.

Sunak ftw. He is too rich for his own good, but at least he isnt a right-wing nutjob. He is also supposedly a proponent of crypto currency, which i think is a positive thing in the shadow of the economic/financial meltdown we are currently seeing. Building a better relationship is not snubbing the US. Anyone who thinks we would be better off loading up on missiles and flak jackets than working closer with all nations is an idiot.

This article is just ridiculous. Who is even asking this question?

The American people do not want war any with anyone.depending on the British is a loser proposition

Nobody sane wants war. But if war comes, better to count Britain as an active ally than to be without their help.

That's a BS headline

The USA recognizes the one China.

The UK are pushing their imperialistic agenda.

The UK and USA have lost their hegemony of global dominance and going to war like they used to isn't going to work out like it used to !

It appears France is more sensible than the UK and USA with not prioritizing getting involved in the Indo-Pacific security .

Its possible a major conflict could happen at anytime.

The Mainland Chinese and the Mainland Chinese who invaded Formosa circa 77 years ago and pushed the native Formosans up into the mountains have been in detente for years and now the U.S. and UK are sticking their bloody fingers into the pie and trying to start a war with the U.S. creating provocations routinely. Certainly U.S. weapons makers have a strong hand in this policy selling highly profitable 'defense' to 'Taiwan' by causing offense to China. LET THEM BE. It's their problem and their's alone and they will figure it out if the American corrupted Taiwanese leadership does not do anything particularly stupid and allow the U.S. to turn Taiwan into an active threat to the PRC. And if a major war breaks out, Japan will be the first to know it and to FEEL it and no Japanese people should have to die for American psychopathy.

Kyo wa heiwa dayo neToday  03:28 pm JST

That's a BS headline

The USA recognizes the one China.

Correct, but the USA does not recognize China's sovereignty over Taiwan.

@WilliamBjornson, the mainland China refugees from the 1949 revolution and their offspring never amounted to more than 16% of the population of Taiwan. There were a lot of Han Chinese living there who's families came over during the Qing Dynasty, after the Dutch were kicked out. At the conclusion of WWII the majority of people living in Taiwan were Han Chinese and the aboriginal population was already a small minority. The appearance of mainland Chinese fleeing Mao made essentially no difference in the lives of the aboriginal population.

Correct, but the USA does not recognize China's sovereignty over Taiwan.

It's not that simple. The government on Taiwan is the same government founded by Dr. Sun Yat-sen in 1911 after the defeat of the Qing. It is China's first republic. That they were run off the mainland by Mao doesn't change this fact. The view of the US, and that of the government in Taiwan until very recently it seems, was that the government of Taiwan remains the original first Republic of China but the reality is they only control Taiwan and some small adjoining islands the Communists didn't conquer. The US position is that there is only "one China" but leaves which government is legitimate vague and unstated.

When you have family in the mainland you know that after WWII was over the Chinese were tired of fighting, and than included fighting Mao. Remember Mao was almost crushed in 1937 by Republican forces, but they had to let him get away in the Long March (Long Retreat) and turn their attention to fighting Japan. Mao sat the war out in the North and let the Soviets run the Japanese out. Only after the Japanese were defeated did Mao's forces again attack Republican forces. By then most Chinese were exhausted by fighting and let Mao win thinking anything is better than constant war. But in hindsight there is regret. Nobody really knew what Mao would do and by the time they figured it out it was too late to stop him. The legitimacy of the CCP therefore is always in question and hence their exquisite sensitivity to how they are perceived.

It could be that in the fullness of time the government on Taiwan outlives the CCP and China ends up returning to the constitution and government of their first republic rather than the people's republic.

"The American people do not want war "....but nobody asks them do they ?

I've changed my mind on Taiwan,s right to autonomy.

I support it .

Look at other cases of Imperialism holding on/or wanting to hold on to lands {see India, USA, Canada, Australia {for UK } and Holland in Indonesia, French in Indo china.

It all comes to evolve with local people seeking and getting....eventually....mostly autonomy.

Taiwan no pushover, even without US help.

It's missiles could destroy a large swathe of China's manufacturing ability, sending millions of Chinese into poverty and unemployment.

China's military/political oppression couldnt cope with such a home based crisis.

Interesting aside but there is a rapidly developing movement in China among borrowers to stop paying their mortgages. In China many people buy a "home", really just a long term lease on a flat in a large high rise housing complex, before the buildings are even built. They start paying their mortgage before the building is built too. The builders rely on this revenue stream to fund the construction. All of a sudden these aspiring "home owners" are refusing to pay their mortgage and it is rapidly becomeing a nationwide movement. Stuff is happening in China. People are unhappy with their lot and with the CCP.

As Britain's ruling Conservatives begin a contest to find a new leader and prime minister, experts believe whoever assumes the role will probably be the only European leader to offer front-line defense support to the United States in the event of a conflict with China over Taiwan.

But of course European countries will be screaming for US assistance if Russia engages in a conflict with any of them.