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Rather than reading about the covid mask problem in the UK I'd rather see positive action against China as regards how Uighurs are 'treated worse than dogs' in Xinjiang camps.

Boycott Chinese goods ?

]In 2019:

• UK exports to China were worth £30.7 billion; imports from China were £49.0 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of -£18.3 billion.
• The UK had a small surplus with China on trade in services, outweighed by a deficit on trade in goods.
• China accounted for 4.4% of UK exports and 6.8% of all UK imports.

China was the UK’s sixth largest export market and fourth largest source of imports. UK trade with increased rapidly since the turn of the century – in 1999 China was the UK’s 26th largest export market and 15th largest source of imports.

In 2019, the UK’s single largest export to China was non-monetary gold, valued at £6.4 billion; this represented 27% of all UK goods exports to China.

Other British goods exports to China included petroleum, valued at £5 billion (19% of goods exports), road vehicles, valued at £3 billion (13% of goods exports) and medicinal and pharmaceutical products, valued at £2 billion (7% of goods exports).

Combined, these four products groups comprised 66% of all the UK’s goods exports to China

In 2019, the UK’s single largest import from China was telecoms equipment, valued at £7 billion, representing 16% of all UK goods imports from China
Other imports from China included miscellaneous manufactured articles (a category that includes plastic articles, toys, games and sporting goods) valued at £5 billion (11% of all goods imports), office machinery, valued at £5 billion (10% of all goods imports) and electrical machinery and equipment, valued at £4 billion (9% of all goods imports)

SOURCE

Britain has authorised millions in sales of arms to China, mostly military radar equipment for the country’s fast-growing navy, now the world’s largest. Licences worth £16.2m were granted for radar components in 2015 and a further £4.15m in 2018, according to official records.

The Asian superpower has long been accused of engaging in the suppression of its Uighur Muslim minority in the west of the country, and the UK increasingly regards its navy as a strategic threat amid fears that Chinese warships could even sail around the north of Russia to enter the Atlantic.

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We actually, according to that article above, sell arms to 58 countries of the 73 listed as subject to restrictions by the Department for International Trade.

When, precisely, are you expecting Johnson and his gang of money-grabbing double-dealing, unprincipled, unethical, criminal, amoral and immoral bastards to wag the UK's finger at China and tell it to stand on the international naughty step?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.thegua ... -covid-hit

China replaces Germany as UK’s biggest import market

Trade with EU falls 23% from 2018 as Brexit and Covid disrupt exports from Britain

slinger wrote: ↑Sat Jun 05, 2021 4:21 pm
When, precisely, are you expecting Johnson and his gang of money-grabbing double-dealing, unprincipled, unethical, criminal, amoral and immoral bastards to wag the UK's finger at China and tell it to stand on the international naughty step?

I'm not expecting any UK government to do anything, I was thinking more of public action by like minded people.

Mind you, some might be shocked to find out exactly how much of what they purchase originates from China.

valvesRus wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 12:05 am originates from China.

Let us not forget a global pandemic. Coming more and more round to the opinion that the source was a lab and the leak was not an accident. We will never know for sure.