James Cleverly said conflict over Taiwan would collapse China’s economy and take several others down with it. China is Australia’s largest customer.
The UK’s Foreign Secretary James Cleverly has said any conflict over Taiwan would collapse China’s economy and warned Beijing that what happens in the strait is everybody’s business.
“Conflict across the Taiwan Strait would, I think, collapse the Chinese economy and bring a number of other economies with it,” he said.Cleverly added that China’s economic slowdown was showing the world that it was not “all-powerful” and that it was not inevitable that it would supersede the United States to become the world’s dominant economy.
He said that African countries processing their own critical minerals, instead of selling them raw to China, could help stop the flow of migrant boats to the UK, via Europe.
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