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It said that “instances of China’s espionage, interference in our democracy and the undermining of our economic security have increased in recent years”.
This is vague because they can't actually come up with any specific acts to "interfere" with their "democracy".
our democracy
Says the USian province with multiple hereditary ruling positions and which - as all of NATO - is reliant on having (neo-)colonies the people of which are denied any sort of input on how NATO de facto rules them.
Time to RESPECT our DEMOCRACY by singing GOD SAVE THE KING
Liberal monarchists will claim that the king is actually super democratic because he's there to protect democracy. If the democratically elected government were ever to do something authoritarian the king would simply say "No!" and restore democracy.
This is what monarchists actually believe, I swear.
little known fact, kings have a special organ that can detect democratic actions
The "interference" is probably something something, TikTok, something something
"My horrible nephew spams the family group text with chad xi memes and this INTERFERENCE will STOP TODAY"
It's funny hearing elected officials talk about election interference. Like, you won the election, would you have lost otherwise? Is China responsible for getting Kier Starmer elected? What is the consequence of this election interference?
With Russiagate there was this unserious but emotionally satisfying idea that Russia somehow tipped the scales in favor of Trump, who presumably would not have been elected otherwise (lmao). But like, what's the argument in the UK, or Canada? Where is the actual interference? What do they think China is trying to do? Why?
Meanwhile, the fucking Royal Navy has ships in the South China sea lol
The what now? That's not a job for China. Invading to depose the brutal regime of Charles and restore demuhcrasee is only for the good ol US of A.
Seriously calling their surreal bicameral system where one house are actual landed aristocrats "democracy" and not crappy almost-republican monarchy is misinformation. Don't get me started on the endless list of medieval crap they maintain as lifelong paid professions with some bizarre paragovernmental authority like guardian of the king's underpants and stuff like that.
just remembered when i tried to use this as an avatar image in a chinese phone game and it immediately got flagged as "inappropriate" lol
Their attempts to destabilise our country included very reasonable trade deals, essentially funding our university system via very high fees for Chinese students, offering to modernise our internet/cell infrastructure, and an infrastructure deal on nuclear power.
Then the US engineered Brexit, cooked up the Xinjiang "genocide" bullshit, and whipped us into line.
We reneged on various deals, cancelled internet/cell and nuclear infrastructure, started treating Chinese postgrads like spies, screamed 'genocide' without evidence, cooked up elaborate conspiracy theories about foreign police stations, blamed China for COVID while we killed hundreds of thousands of our own citizens and robbed the public purse for hundreds of billions in corrupt contracts, all while working with the Americans to actually destabilise China and sanction their politicians.
A rare mature moment from the world's 2nd most powerful country!!