Maybe Britain should wage war? Ya'll did when China cracked down on Opium smuggling over a hundred years back.

China buying brick and mortar schools in the era when b&m schools are dying seems silly. Are these higher level institutions? I'd think they would buy a school more for the research IP than indoctrination of another countries populace. Especially with how 'tinfoil' hat 'conspiracy theory' westerners are.

This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Feb 22 2021 06:57am

OP hates capitalism

The us hates how other countries schools actually teach their kids shit.

China taking over and people too busy playing Diablo 2, Wow and all the shit activities you guys do on a daily basis while even their Chinese kids have a job and bring money home. Hope you guys learning Mandarin. Will become handy within a few years.

They do it for a myriad of reasons. Intellectual property is one reason, corporate / political espionage is another, but projects like the Confucius institute are also geared towards "correctly" framing international policy issues from a Chinese perspective. This includes Chinese human rights abuses, aggression towards Taiwan, and the vast crackdown still taking place within Hong Kong. The Chinese have been paying off Caribbean nations for decades to switch recognition from Taiwan (RoC) to China (CCP). There's no conclusion to draw from that except that they care a great deal about Taiwan. Nationalism is the bread and butter of the regime now that they're being weaned off Communism.

Farage is desperately trying to find new talking points now that we've left the EU and it's a disaster

Anyway, the government have cooled relations with China drastically since Cameron if you've been paying attention. Kicking Huawei off the 5G build, government criticism of the treatment of Uyghur muslims, offering a path to citizenship for millions of Hong Kongers, plus about five other examples I could name

This forum seriously lacks moderation

you're my bump thread guy now. thx