COULD the world be heading to war?<\/p>\n
The question may seem strange, as we struggle with basic issues at home, such as how to just get a tank of petrol.<\/p>\n
But events a couple of continents away are a reminder that the world is often on a trigger point, and the Communist Party of China is starting to look very trigger happy indeed.<\/p>\n
Earlier this week the Communists sent a record number of fighter jets into the airspace of neighbouring Taiwan.<\/p>\n
The CCP believes that Taiwan belongs to them. It does not.<\/p>\n
Taiwan is a sovereign nation whose people have managed to escape the curse of Chinese Communist rule for decades.<\/p>\n
But if there is one thing the CCP excels at, it is pursuing long-term goals.<\/p>\n
Between Friday and Monday of this week a record 149 Chinese warplanes deliberately flew into Taiwanese airspace.<\/p>\n
The CCP is solely responsible for these provocative acts.<\/p>\n
And they know that each time they do it they are only one step away from hurtling the region, and the world, into full-on military conflict, turning an existing Cold War into a very hot war indeed.<\/p>\n
The Cold War with China is itself something that has crept up on us.<\/p>\n
For the last twenty years, since China entered the World Trade Organisation, there was a hope that the country would normalize.<\/p>\n
They have done anything but. They have become richer, certainly, and they have built up their military, for sure.<\/p>\n
But they have also tried to flex their muscles on the international stage in a way that is becoming increasingly intolerable.<\/p>\n
Too few people in the West realise the true scale of this ramping up of tensions by the CCP.<\/p>\n
Last year the American government ordered the Chinese authorities to close their consulate in Houston, Texas.<\/p>\n
The cause was the discovery that the consulate acted as one huge Communist spy ring.<\/p>\n
This was spying on a scale that was unimaginable, even during the Cold War standoff between the West and Russia.<\/p>\n
The Chinese were using their consulate to hoover-up intelligence including information about American businesses.<\/p>\n
It was an escalation of a decades-long process of information theft by the Chinese.<\/p>\n
All done at the behest of the authorities in Beijing.<\/p>\n
And it is not just America that Beijing has in its sights.<\/p>\n
Any country that the communists think is daring to stand up to them is treated in a way unheard of among civilized nations.<\/p>\n
Take the hostage stand-off that has just finished between China and Canada.<\/p>\n
Yes Canada, a country which under PM Justin Trudeau has become perhaps the developed worlds most ridiculous and unserious nation.<\/p>\n
Three years ago the Canadian authorities detained Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Chinese tech company Huawei.<\/p>\n
This company has been central to CCP influence and information peddling in recent years.<\/p>\n
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It is essentially a front of the Chinese government. Wanzhou was detained on fraud charges.<\/p>\n
And how did China react?<\/p>\n
It immediately kidnapped two Canadian citizens who were in China, under invented charges of espionage.<\/p>\n
It was a straightforward hostage situation.<\/p>\n
These two Canadian men Michael Kovrig and Michael Spavor spent more than 1000 days languishing in Chinese prisons.<\/p>\n
Without realising it, we have been in a Cold War with China for many years. <\/p>\n
Douglas Murray<\/p>\n
It was all part of an ugly kidnap and extortion by the Communist authorities against citizens of a free democracy.<\/p>\n
It was a disgraceful episode, only concluded this week, when both sides did an effective prisoner exchange.<\/p>\n
One CCP official responded to this by saying that the Canadians shouldnt be so upset.<\/p>\n
After all, most Canadians who go to China are allowed back home.<\/p>\n
Such brazenness by the Chinese Communists is a new thing.<\/p>\n
Perhaps they are emboldened by the fact that they have got away with releasing a virus that has killed millions of people around the world.<\/p>\n
And they not only got away with this.<\/p>\n
They have got away with their coverup, refusing to answer any questions about the laboratory which the coronavirus almost certainly came from.<\/p>\n
Or perhaps their recent military aggression against Taiwan is a result of something else.<\/p>\n
The sight of America and her allies scrambling to get out of Afghanistan, chased from that country after 20 years by the rag-tag Taliban and other terrorist groups.<\/p>\n
The CCP knows that America in theory vows to protect the sovereignty of Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Too few people in the West realise the true scale of this ramping up of tensions by the CCP.<\/p>\n
Douglas Murray<\/p>\n
But in theory the Americans were meant to defend Afghanistan, or least not disastrously retreat leaving their citizens and equipment behind.<\/p>\n
The CCP may have calculated that the aftermath of a display of such Western weakness is a good time to test the resolve of America and her allies on other issues, including Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Without realising it, we have been in a Cold War with China for many years.<\/p>\n
If that were to turn into a hot war then it would certainly be the fault of the communists.<\/p>\n
They are the ones who have started it.<\/p>\n
But if China keeps pushing Taiwanese and Western resolve, then it should be us who finishes it.<\/p>\n
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