Huawei has exposed Britain’s geopolitical reckoning

The problem is, over the past five years, Russia has also begun trying to engage China in a de-facto anti-Western alliance. At last year’s Valdai conference, the showpiece annual event for Putin’s foreign policy, the entire agenda was dominated by Russia’s attempts to woo Beijing. There are calls for a “common information space”, bilateral currency arrangements designed to squeeze the dollar, and boost bilateral trade. 

But Beijing is reportedly resistant. It has complied with US requests to shut Russian companies and individuals out of its banking system, and has expressed reluctance to join in the breakup of the multilateral global order, which via the WTO has been the springboard to its own economic take-off. 

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