Has Britain gone soft on China?
A spying fiasco and a new London embassy feed accusations that Sir Keir is a Red softy
In 1844 this newspaper reported on a special train that had just pulled into London carrying nine-and-a-half tonnes of silver. The money was a ransom from China’s government, paid to Britain as part of a lopsided peace deal in the opium wars, waged—disgracefully—by Britain to allow it to continue the lucrative trade in the drug. The haul would end up at the Royal Mint in east London.
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