India & Pakistan deserve not one penny of UK aid until they denounce murderous Putin
China’s choice WE hope China is as aghast as we are over the beautiful cities laid waste, the bombed apartments and the families slaughtered by Putin’s deranged, unprovoked assault. Is President Xi, behind his public warmth towards Moscow, not equally mortified by this monstrous injustice? China is guilty of its own crimes, of course. But […]
China’s choice
WE hope China is as aghast as we are over the beautiful cities laid waste, the bombed apartments and the families slaughtered by Putin’s deranged, unprovoked assault.
Is President Xi, behind his public warmth towards Moscow, not equally mortified by this monstrous injustice?
China is guilty of its own crimes, of course. But even those are eclipsed by Russia’s scorched-earth annihilation of its neighbour, its massacres, its nuclear threats and its shameless, sickening lies.
Xi may be unable to muzzle the mad Kremlin dog. But he must pick a side, for the sake of his own nation’s future.
This war presents a binary choice: Putin’s abhorrent killing machine versus a young democracy fighting bravely for its life. Fascism versus civilisation. Evil versus good, as in 1939.
Which will China want to go down alongside in the history books?
Russia — this broken pariah state which most of the world will never forgive while Putin or his lackeys remain in power? Or those who stood up to it?
China does big business with Moscow. That is dwarfed by the trade with the US and Europe on which its new prosperity has relied. And the West is more united now than it has been for 30 years. What if it blacklists those who allied with the Hitler of the 21st Century?
The same goes for India and Pakistan. There is no place for their lily-livered neutrality.
What’s more, those too conflicted to denounce this murderous tyranny deserve not one penny of the UK aid they are still, farcically, receiving. Scrap it today.
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