China wants to subordinate west, US politician claims on UK visit

Republican Mike Gallagher, leading delegation to London, says world is in window of maximum danger'

Beijing wants to subordinate and humiliate" the west, according to the Republican chair of a newly created China committee in Congress who is leading a delegation of hawkish US politicians on a two-day trip to the UK.

Mike Gallagher argued that China, under President Xi Jinping, believed in the inevitable demise of capitalism", and said he hoped to better understand how far British politicians of all parties shared his committee's concerns.