Another UK government is doing contradictory things when it comes to China
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6WM0V)
Approach to expanding trade has been castigated for allowing Beijing to invest heavily in vital UK infrastructure
As even Donald Trump was forced to accept in scaling back his latest tariffs, China is just too big to ignore. And so it is, on a much smaller scale, that yet another UK government is doing several contradictory things at once when it comes to Beijing.
This weekend brought a particularly resonant example. On the one hand, the business secretary, Jonathan Reynolds, was hinting that British Steel's Chinese owner, Jingye, was to blame for neglect - if not worse - over the fate of the threatened blast furnaces at Scunthorpe.
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