As a result of the race with the elimination of contenders for the post of British prime minister, two remained.

The current head of the Foreign Office is Lizaveta Truss and former Chancellor of the Exchequer (Finance Minister) Rishi Sunak.

During the pre-election debate, both finalists, of course, showed a firm anti-Russian position, and it cannot be otherwise.

However, precisely because it is impossible, you will no longer surprise anyone with invectives about the Kremlin on the islands.

Here the most frantic "woof-woof-woof" increasingly begins to take on the character of white noise.

As the creatives say, “you need a move”, that is, something fresh that can attract the attention of the public.

And the move was found.

The disputants turned their eyes to the East and with the same energy began to slander the Chinese comrades.

Still something new.

Truss vowed to take action against the Chinese social network TikTok.

Initially, this network was deliberately apolitical and its audience was made up of teenagers speaking their own idiolect and preoccupied with their puberty concerns.

But times are changing, politics has reached teenagers.

“We absolutely must take action against such companies.

We must limit the amount of technology exports to authoritarian regimes.

And I am talking about this with the G7 countries.”

And TikTok didn't end there.

Truss spoke about the measures that should be taken against China in general: “We should not repeat the mistakes that we made with Russia, becoming strategically dependent on it.

After the horrendous actions in Hong Kong and the most recent outrage - working with Russia and its significant support from China in the terrible war with Ukraine - we must learn from the mistakes that Europe made in dealing with Russia, becoming dependent on its oil and gas.

We cannot allow the same to happen with China.”

That is, by closing Russia (or deciding that they closed it), the islanders, in the person of Truss, intend to close China as well.

Why is he actually better?

Sunak, an Indian by birth, also joined Truss: “Stop spreading red carpets in front of Beijing.

The PRC is the biggest long-term threat to the UK and the world."

He promised not only to fight TikTok, but also to put an end to joint projects between London and Beijing that could help the latter technologically or even militarily, but also spoke about his intention to close 31 British branches of the Confucius Institute.

He probably realized that under the guise of teaching the Chinese language and culture, the Confucians were conducting hostile activities.

On the one hand, having launched a campaign to criticize Lin Biao and Confucius, the former chancellor did this, since one cannot yield to a rival in anything - such are the rules of debate.

On the other hand, relations between India and China were not cloudless before - it even came to hostilities, and the slogan "Hindi, chini - bhai, bhai" did not always serve as a guide to action.

BRICS BRICS, and there are enough skeletons in the closet.

It is possible that Sunak, as a devout Hindu, decided that being holier than the supreme Brahmin was both timely and profitable.

But no matter what guided the tanker with the Hindu, they repeat the mistake of their American friends.

Before, when the US policy was clever, that is, at least sane, preventing an alliance between Russia and China — or at least a rapprochement on the principle of “Your unwitting brother” — was the most important imperative.

Now the times of sanity have passed, and the United States, like the very late USSR, is going to conquer both Moscow and Beijing under the nose.

This configuration does not end well.

But this is the United States, which still has an impressive military and a printing press that produces dollars.

No matter how you feel about it, it's not quite a paper tiger yet.

Unlike the United States, England has neither an army nor a navy, and a machine that prints pounds sterling is not quite the same.

If the Americans climb on the rampage, then after all the power is big.

But where the British are climbing - this mystery is great.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.