{"id":56651,"date":"2023-07-14T01:22:09","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/isc-report-scathing-uk-china-strategy"},"modified":"2023-07-14T01:22:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T16:22:09","slug":"committee-report-is-rightfully-scathing-on-uks-china-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56651","title":{"rendered":"Committee report is rightfully scathing on UK\u2019s China strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ISC\u2019s warnings are unlikely to act as much of a brake on Britain\u2019s approach to China<\/p>\n<p>If there is one constant in the UK\u2019s policy towards China over the past three decades it has been its short-termism and inconsistency, the scathing intelligence and security committee report on China rightly finds, comparing Britain\u2019s endless course corrections with Beijing\u2019s capacity to think strategically about how to advance the global interests of the Chinese Communist party.<\/p>\n<p>If Downing Street thinks in terms of the next news bulletin, China has a planning cycle that in some of its documents takes it to 2049, as the ISC was told by one of its intelligence agency witnesses.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jul\/13\/isc-report-scathing-uk-china-strategy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ISC\u2019s warnings are unlikely to act as much of a brake on Britain\u2019s approach to ChinaIf there is one constant in the UK\u2019s policy towards China over the past three decades it has been its short-termism and inconsistency, the scathing intelligence and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,904,221,530,4,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-conservatives","category-europe","category-european-union","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56652,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56651\/revisions\/56652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}