200,000 Hong Kongers are set to come to Britain to live after UK offered them a route to citizenship Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to welcome three million Hong Kong residents The Foreign Office is working on estimates that 200,000 will take the offer Alan Mak, a Conservative of Chinese descent, said he doesn’t think … Read more
One of Britain’s new £3billion aircraft carriers could be sent to the Far East under new plans drawn up by military chiefs, reports today suggest. The class leading HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to visit the region during its maiden grand voyage next year. The aircraft carrier is set to be involved in joint military … Read more
One of Britain’s new £3billion aircraft carriers could be sent to the Far East under new plans drawn up by military chiefs, reports today suggest. The class leading HMS Queen Elizabeth is expected to visit the region during its maiden grand voyage next year. The aircraft carrier is set to be involved in joint military … Read more
US Democratic and Republican National Committees warn staffers against using TikTok over privacy concerns and ties to Chinese government The DNC and RNC have warned party members and staffers against using TikTok Both parties are citing privacy concerns as their reason TikTok is owned by the China-based ByteDance and has come under scrutiny for sending … Read more
The Covid-19 pandemic may ‘get worse and worse’, a WHO chief has warned after 230,000 cases were recorded yesterday in the darkest day of the crisis so far. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the WHO, gave a stark warning today that if countries failed to implement basic control measures, things could get worse. … Read more
200,000 Hong Kongers are set to come to Britain to live after UK offered them a route to citizenship Boris Johnson has unveiled plans to welcome three million Hong Kong residents The Foreign Office is working on estimates that 200,000 will take the offer Alan Mak, a Conservative of Chinese descent, said he doesn’t think … Read more
Ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove urges ‘reset of whole relationship’ with China amid claims Huawei is pushing Boris Johnson not to ditch its technology from the UK’s telecoms network until AFTER the next election in 2024 Boris Johnson is expected to U-turn on allowing Huawei role in 5G network Ex-MI6 chief Richard Dearlove urged ‘reset of … Read more
‘Love of my life’: Lord Bates and Li Xuelin on their wedding day in 2012 Li Xuelin has always been a woman in a hurry. But perhaps on her wedding day, she allowed herself a moment to reflect on her dizzying, though carefully calibrated, journey from communist China to the heart of the British Establishment. After exchanging … Read more
Of all the memorable speeches delivered by Winston Churchill, none was more influential than his 1946 address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. Although Churchill was no longer Prime Minister by then, the speech threw out phrases that would echo down the years. Describing a new post-war division of the world between East and West, … Read more
Ministers fear China will blitz UK with a devastating online attack – dubbed ‘cyber 9/11’ – amid perfect storm of diplomatic fallouts The Government prepares block Huawei from helping build Britain’s 5G network Security chiefs fear that attacks would cripple computer networks and blackouts Boris Johnson has also called for an inquiry into the true source … Read more