Original: Yin Guoming source wechat official account: Mingren Mingcha has been authorized to reprint
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Thanks to this country, I can continue to believe in the “good reincarnation of heaven”.
Great things have really happened in Britain this time. In the Johnson Administration of Britain, 16 ministers have resigned.
This is not all about the seriousness of the problem. According to the latest and incomplete statistics, 45 British Conservative ministers and members of Parliament holding senior government positions have resigned, and one minister has been dismissed by British Prime Minister Johnson, a total of 46. Including 3 cabinet ministers, 2 senior ministers, 16 ministers, 21 parliamentary private secretaries and 4 trade envoys.
The current British government is falling apart. How many meters away from the “coup”?
Johnson at the center of the storm is under great pressure. According to relevant BBC reports, cabinet members have successively traveled to Downing Street to persuade Johnson to resign, including the new finance minister Zahavi just appointed by Johnson.
According to a provisional poll conducted by the British public opinion survey, 69% of Britons think Johnson should resign.
What happened in Britain?
It is said that the direct fuse of this collective resignation storm is Johnson’s headstrong insistence on appointing Christopher pincher, a close confidant of the man accused of indecency, as the Deputy whip of the conservative party to exercise supervision. Johnson himself explained his ignorance in order to reduce the pressure on his appointment. As a result, more and more evidence showed that he was lying.
This detonated the dissatisfaction of the cabinet into a political crisis.
I have no doubt about Johnson’s ability to do the whole thing. After all, he bears the aura of the British version of trump. Halo plus body, the whole thing is daily, not the whole thing is abnormal. This time, a new historical record of British politics will be compiled.
The first British health secretary to resign said: “enough, I believe it is now.” They are all Party comrades, and they still speak so strongly that they leave no room for them, and they even don’t consider meeting each other in the future. Judging from this, it is unlikely that just an inappropriate appointment of Johnson could detonate such a big political crisis.
Johnson, who has just passed the confidence vote in the party, is still able to survive the crisis this time. The world is watching with curiosity and excitement.
At the beginning, Johnson was still fighting, “a prime minister entrusted with a great mission, in difficult circumstances, his job is to continue to move forward, which is what I want to do.” “I will never resign. The last thing this country needs is elections.” But there were changes soon, and Johnson agreed to resign.
In fact, whether Johnson can continue to move forward or not, Britain is really dragging its aging pace, becoming more and more difficult.
In this sense, this crisis is neither entirely Johnson’s own nor the Conservative Party’s own.
The whole of Britain is facing an unprecedented crisis.
The biggest crisis in Britain is the growing Separatist tendency within the country. According to Reuters, the chief minister of Scottish local government Stephen sturgeon announced last week that he plans to hold the second independence referendum in 2023.
The seriousness of the problem is that Scotland is not the only country with independence tendencies. On May 7 local time, the results of the local elections in Northern Ireland in the United Kingdom were announced. Sinn Fein party, which advocated the “secession” of Northern Ireland, won a big victory, becoming the Nationalist Party that controlled the Northern Ireland Parliament for the first time in 101 years. Sinn Fein advocated that Northern Ireland seceded from Britain and supported the formation of a “unified Ireland”.
Because the British government unilaterally amended the “Northern Ireland agreement”, resulting in tension between the British government and Northern Ireland. On July 5 local time, when the British police were dealing with the security alert in Northern Ireland, local Northern Irish people threw bricks, stones and fireworks at vehicles and armored vehicles driven by British police.
Wales, which has been quiet, has not been calm recently. Because the British government pressured Scotland to donate 65million pounds to Ukraine and Wales to donate 30million pounds to Ukraine, Wales was very dissatisfied, and it was possible to cooperate with Scotland.
Therefore, the British Labor Party and the Liberal Democratic Party, who are watching the excitement of the ruling conservative party, should not be too relaxed. No matter who takes the stage and faces so many problems, no one will relax.
This is the reality of Britain. Britain was once the largest colonial country in history, with colonies spanning several continents. It was no exaggeration that the sun never set. After World War I and World War II, the sun never set Empire officially declined.
It was originally thought that the retreat of the British Empire into Great Britain was the end of Britain’s decline. Now, the probability of Great Britain becoming “Little Britain” is not small.
Britain, which once plunged many countries into division and internal strife, also has today.
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This island country, with many scenery in history, will experience how lonely it is in the future. This country has made great contributions to the advancement of human history to industrial society and modern civilization because it took the lead in realizing the industrial revolution, but it has also brought serious disasters to many countries because of the bloody colonial and imperialist wars. The history of this country also needs to be seen in two.
Although the Opium War, the landmark event of China’s transition to modern history, was launched by Britain, and the first unbalanced treaty requiring China to cede land for compensation was also signed with Britain. China’s oldsummerpalace was also burned by Britain in collaboration with France. Many of China’s precious cultural relics that were robbed are still displayed in British Museums and have not been returned, after all, it is something that happened in history, and everyone will have certain historical limitations, If you know your mistake, you can change it. It’s nothing good. The Chinese did not remember the hatred of this country.
But what the Chinese can’t forgive is that you not only hurt me in history, but also you are still sneaky and want to do something against us. Then new hatred and old hatred will rush into my heart, and new accounts and old accounts will be calculated together.
This is true for Japan, as well as for Britain. Therefore, don’t blame Chinese netizens for watching the political civil strife in Britain with a particularly relaxed mood.
With the return of Hong Kong, if the British take a cooperative attitude, just like the return of Portugal to Macao, the Chinese people will be calm. Turn the page of history and look forward. Even if the McMahon line drawn by the British is the source of the Sino Indian border dispute, it is still something they did before. However, the British people hold the mentality that they can’t get it, and don’t let others get it. If they can’t get it, they will destroy it. They have repeatedly blocked China. This is not what people should do. Hong Kong has experienced so many twists and turns after its return, mainly because the British laid countless mines before its return.
As the most famous “excrement stirring stick” in the world, it is not good at doing good things altruistic, doing bad things and harming others. Instead, it is the British ancestral art ability that has been inherited from generation to generation. It is best at burying mines within or between countries, detonating contradictions and conflicts between countries.
From the world overlord, Britain quickly completed the role transformation and became the younger brother of the new overlord. It was close to the new leading brother and asked for the second place. Although it could not eat meat, it was still no problem to make a good life. If you can put aside your calculations for others, you can have a few more years of good life.
But as the world’s No. 1 “excrement stirring stick”, if you don’t mix it, it’s like a person who has unique skills and doesn’t show it, he will feel uncomfortable all over.
Britain should not jump on the front line against China and Russia, but he did it and enjoyed it. In addition to brexit, this is probably the foreign affairs that Johnson paid most attention to during his term of office. In order to support Ukraine alone, the Johnson administration made Britain pay a high price.
Although we Chinese are very kind and don’t envy others and hope for others, we won’t die without tossing and turning. Since Britain chooses to be hostile to China, it’s a favorite thing to die quickly.
Because this country is doing something bad for us. Dare not continue to accuse China of exercising sovereignty over Hong Kong on the Hong Kong issue, and in May 2022, signed a reciprocal access agreement with Japan, which agreed to deepen military cooperation between the two countries in the Indian Pacific region. The British Defense Secretary also publicly threatened China to use the economies and markets of the seven western countries as a weight to put pressure on China.
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There are many troubles and problems in Britain. Johnson did not face and solve the problems pertinently, but tried every means to divert attention and pressure outward, and took the containment of China and Russia as the pressure relief valve of domestic politics. None of the domestic problems have been solved, but the problems are becoming more and more acute.
Before the collective resignation of cabinet members and government executives, Johnson faced the pressure of weak economic growth and soaring domestic prices.
British Prime Minister Johnson said in an interview with the BBC that although the sanctions against Russia have led to soaring prices in Britain, it is a price worth paying to defend freedom! Facing the soaring food prices in Britain recently, British Prime Minister Johnson also made an incredible proposal: “the best way to lose weight is to eat less!”
Earlier, Johnson implemented the lying down policy relatively early in western countries. According to the organization for economic cooperation and development, Britain is the only country in the group of seven that has seen the proportion of working age population in the labor force decline between 2020 and 2021. Labor shortages have caused lasting damage to the economy. On July 5 local time, the Bank of England warned that the UK economic outlook was “seriously deteriorating”.
The economy is sluggish, there is no surplus food at home, and it is strange that Britain will not intensify all kinds of contradictions by helping Ukraine beyond its capacity.
Now British life has become a comedy, more and more like a joke.
Great Britain, which likes to create contradictions and plunge other countries into divisions and disputes, is not impossible for this country, which is united by four political entities, to be divided into four.
The British Prime Minister Johnson, whose hair will never be “quiet”, has made British politics more and more “romantic”.
It is worthy of being the British version of trump. He likes to be independent and takes an unusual path, which makes British politics feel like a chicken flying dog jumping in a few steps.
Just like trump on stage, American politics has been torn apart in just four years. How many senior staff officers have trump replaced during his term of office. Although the size of Britain is a little small, Johnson’s destructive ability seems to be no less than trump’s.
However, it is easy to imagine that replacing Johnson will fundamentally alleviate the internal crisis in Britain. Because Johnson is just one of many “fruits”, not the “cause”.
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Had it not been for the serious internal crisis in Britain, it would not have created such a big absurd plot in front of the world.
Similar political absurd plays are not only staged in Britain. The politics of the entire Western camp is increasingly unable to be analyzed with common sense. Including but not limited to:
At the same time, the United States regards China and Russia as the targets of containment, which has contributed to the upgrading of China Russia relations. The evolution of the situation is more unfavorable to the United States than the worst result predicted by Brzezinski’s “big chess game”.
The cooperation between Russia and Europe is obviously more beneficial to Europe than the confrontation between Russia and Europe. The fierce confrontation between Russia and Europe will benefit the United States. However, Europe is now on the front line of anti Russia, bearing the biggest cost of anti Russia. Even Germany, a manufacturing power, is under great pressure because of the surge in energy costs. In May, Germany ran a trade deficit for the first time in more than 30 years. The chairman of the German Federation of industry warned that “the bottleneck of natural gas supply has made many industries face permanent collapse”.
Although Japan and South Korea are not completely independent politically, they still have room to maintain a certain balance between China and the United States, but they now have to stand with the United States.
Not to mention the small countries like the Czech Republic and Lithuania, which have to deal with China and do things that harm others.
The politicians in the whole west over the years are indeed like old lady Jiujin saying that each generation is getting worse.
The decline of politicians’ ability is a signal that the Western camp is collectively heading for decline, and a precursor that Western civilization, which has been leading for more than two or three hundred years, is losing its progressiveness and its ability to continue to lead the progress of human civilization.
When Khrushchev of the Soviet Union came to power, the foundation of the unbreakable alliance was cracked.
Trump, the American version of Khrushchev came to power, the political aura of the United States was blown up, and the soft power foundation suffered irreparable losses.
Johnson, the British version of trump and the British version of Khrushchev, is blowing up the cornerstone of Britain’s existence as a United Kingdom.
The capitalist camp believes that the settlement of the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union will usher in the “end of history”. However, when there is external pressure from the Soviet Union, the internal contradictions of capitalism can also make more concessions to workers on the issue of distribution out of the crisis of survival, so that domestic contradictions can be alleviated. Without the Soviet Union, the western capitalist camp began to have less scruples. Neo liberalism became a prominent theory and a policy guiding theory of various countries. Capital gained more, but it also hollowed out the foundation of prosperity in western countries.
Now the west is getting older and older, and its manufacturing strength has become increasingly difficult to support its existing international status and the existing western led international order.
France’s trade deficit in March was 11.5 billion euros, a record high. Britain’s trade deficit in April was 8.5 billion pounds. Italy’s trade deficit in April was 3.6 billion euros. Spain’s trade deficit in April was 6.4 billion euros. Now even Germany, the strongest country in Europe, recorded a deficit of US $1.04 billion in May.
Japan had a trade deficit for 10 consecutive months, with a deficit of US $17.8 billion in May.
The initial value of the U.S. trade deficit in May was $104.3 billion.
The export data of these seven western countries are in deficit. Although not all of them are caused by manufacturing problems, the competitiveness of manufacturing industry in these countries is declining without exception. Germany was originally the country with the best manufacturing competitiveness, but now it has encountered great problems. Nothing else, just look at the electricity price. In 2020, the average wholesale electricity price in Germany was 30.47 euros / megawatt hour. After the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the electricity price in Germany soared to more than 250 euros. The latest benchmark 1-year forward electricity contract price in Germany is 328 euros / megawatt hour, which is more than 10 times the electricity price in 2020. How can those manufacturing enterprises that consume large amounts of electricity survive such cost increases for a long time.
Among the top ten industrialized countries in the world, only two countries have surpluses, one is Brazil and the other is us. China’s trade surplus in May was US $78.76 billion, an increase of 82% year-on-year.
Manufacturing competitiveness is the most important cornerstone of a country’s hard power. The changes of deficits and surpluses among countries reflect a trend. China’s manufacturing scale advantage is still expanding, its competitiveness is still improving, China’s industrial upgrading is making great strides forward, and the last manufacturing position in developed countries is undergoing the test brought by the conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
The West has not brought good news to the economy because it is flat, but we have achieved stronger competitiveness because we have not learned from the West.
Think about the laiping faction in China. If we listen to them, what will happen. It has cost millions of lives, and the economy will encounter serious difficulties. I gave up my insistence on myself and got nothing.
Combined with the recent teaching materials and other issues, it has long been clear where the biggest obstacles and the most dangerous opponents are in China’s rise. As long as we are not confused by our internal rivals, the rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is not only inevitable, but also likely to be achieved at a faster speed.