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China warns 'new cold war' with US

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Published: 06:38, 25 May 2020   Update: 15:18, 26 July 2020
China warns 'new cold war' with US

The prospects of a trade war between China and the western economies ratcheted up on Sunday as Beijing accused the US of pushing relations towards a “new cold war”.

“China has no intention to change, still less replace the United States,” China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, said on Sunday in the latest escalation in tensions between the world’s two largest economies. “It’s time for the United States to give up its wishful thinking of changing China and stopping 1.4 billion people in their historic march toward modernisation.”

He said US political attacks on China over the coronavirus and global trade matters “are taking China-US relations hostage and pushing our two countries to the brink of a new cold war”.

Relations between the UK and the US have also soured as a string of Conservative politicians pressed on Sunday for tighter controls to protect struggling UK companies from Chinese takeovers, and the UK announced an emergency review of the deal to allow the Chinese telecoms firm Huawei to help run the forthcoming 5G mobile network.

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre is expected to conclude that recently announced US sanctions against Huawei will make it impossible to use the Chinese company’s technology as planned.

A government spokesman said: “Following the US announcement of additional sanctions against Huawei, the NCSC is looking carefully at any impact they could have to the UK’s networks.”

Last week Boris Johnson was forced to give in to Conservative backbench rebels opposed to the presence of Huawei in 5G networks. The prime minister said he was drawing up plans to reduce the Chinese company’s involvement to zero by 2023.

Over the weekend, a series of well-known Conservative MPs added their voices to the debate by either writing or tweeting newspaper articles about the UK distancing itself from China. The MPs included former leader Iain Duncan Smith, former defence secretary Liam Fox and Tom Tugendhat, the chairman of the Commons foreign affairs committee.

Source: The Guardian


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