China: friend, or foe we must pretend is a friend because it's f**king terrifying?

IS China Britain’s enemy? And if it was, would we still pretend it wasn’t because we’re too small to do anything about it? We examine the facts:

China owns the world’s economy

The entire world is dependent on China continuing to sell us things and continuing to buy our things. And they’re a command economy, meaning Xi Jinping could say ‘Britain’s out’ tomorrow and our economy would collapse. Cowardly politicians believe this must be factored into whether we class a country as our enemy.

China is very big

Geography only goes so far. For example, for a couple of centuries Britain’s navy was big and sophisticated enough to run the world. However those days are gone, and China’s area of 3.7 million square miles and population of 1.4 billion does give it some weight in international proceed