Britain’s political elites have been ‘bought’ by Beijing

Modern Chinese communism aims to “take over the world”, but the threat is being swept under the rug because large swaths of the political establishment have been “bought off” by Beijing, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned.

Brexit movement champion Nigel Farage said this week that while people are rightly concerned about the threat posed by Vladimir Putin’s Russia, a far greater threat comes in the form of the communist regime in China, which , he noted, has “broken all promises.” they invaded Hong Kong,” reportedly deploying a spy to operate in the UK parliament, and is currently threatening a possible invasion of Taiwan – and thus threatening the critical global supply of chip semiconductors.

Farage said Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party (CCP) goal IS to “take over the world, that’s their plan, we have to be ready and prepared, so wake up, smell the coffee!”

The Brexiteer turned primetime TV presenter for GB News has speculated that the reason for the lack of focus on communist China compared to Russia is the result of Beijing’s infiltration into the upper echelons of British society , including the corridors of political power in Westminster.

Mr Farage pointed to a recent article by a Tory peer and former Chancellor of the Exchequer under Theresa May, Philip Hammond, who wrote in the CCP Spokesman China Daily newspaper that the UK and China should go back to ‘business as usual’ and try again to foster the so-called golden era of relations fostered by former Prime Minister David Cameron and his main crony George Osborne – another former chancellor.

“I’m sure Philip Hammond wrote this article out of the goodness of his heart rather than personal financial advantage,” Farage said.

Mr Farage also pointed to the number of business and government figures in Britain with links to controversial Chinese telecommunications company Huawei, including former British Petroleum (BP) CEO Lord John Browne, the civil servant Sir Andrew Cahn and the former Chancellor of the University. of Southampton, Lady Helen Alexander.

Former BT Group (formerly British Telecom) chief Sir Michael Rake also served on Huawei’s board from 2019 to 2021.

“The upper echelons of British society are being bought off by Chinese money and nobody wants to talk about it,” Farage said.

Mr Farage, however, praised a recent proposal by former Prime Minister Liz Truss, who said in her first post-Downing Street speech in Tokyo, Japan on Friday that Britain should be ready to impose economic sanctions on the Chinese government. they are trying to conquer Taiwan – a self-governing democracy that has never been under CCP control and has its own army, currency, written language and culture.

Whether London will take a hard line on China remains to be seen, especially given that the same people who pushed Truss unceremoniously to power after less than two months in office, current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Chancellor Jeremy Hunt, have both been outspoken supporters of expanding business ties with the leftist authoritarian regime.

The two globalist-minded politicians also, perhaps coincidentally, have personal ties to China, with Hunt’s wife, a Chinese national, who previously worked for a Chinese state media outlet that ran a program of propaganda about the Xinjiang region that conveniently omitted what the United Nations and parliaments around the world have called a genocide against its Uyghur Muslims and other local ethnic minorities.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Sunak has married India’s billionaire tech elite, his wife being the daughter of billionaire InfoSys founder NR Narayana Murthy.

The tech giant reportedly owns two Chinese subsidiaries, Infosys Technologies (China) Co Limited and Infosys Technologies (Shanghai) Co Limited, according to the Daily mail.

In its first unsuccessful attempt to replace Boris Johnson in the Tory leadership race last summer, China’s state-run propaganda newspaper The world times basically endorsed Sunak, saying he was the only candidate with a “pragmatic view of developing a balanced relationship with China.”

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