Tuesday, 2 June 2026
Said with tiers in their eyes
Cooper says UK and China have 'shared interest' in rules-based order
The rules-based international order is in Britain and China’s “shared interest”, Yvette Cooper said as she met the country’s vice-president Han Zheng for talks on global security as part of a three-day visit to Asia.
The Foreign Secretary acknowledged “areas of disagreement” between London and Beijing but insisted that approaching discussions with “candour and respect” would help to increase mutual understanding of one another.
Greeting the minister in the capital’s Great Hall of the People on Tuesday, Mr Han hailed a “new chapter in bilateral ties” which he said had been opened during Sir Keir Starmer’s visit to the country in January.
You British have sold your souls for something less than the conventional mess of pottage. You are ruled in the first place by money-bags, and the faddists whom they support to blind your eyes.
John Buchan - The Half-Hearted (1900)
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I have seen no evidence that China follows "The rules-based international order" unless it suits them as a temporary misdirection. How quaint that Yvette Cooper thinks Britain and China have shared interests beyond the transactional.
Who is Britain's greatest enemy: France, the USA, Russia, China, Weird Ed?
Obvs it's Thoroughly Modern Mili.
DJ - I agree, not many countries do seem to follow "The rules-based international order" unless they gain from it. In some respects the UK government seems to view China as a model to follow.
dearieme - yes it's Weird Ed, he's way out in front as a genuine threat, especially as he seems intent on being an even bigger threat.
The rules-based international order is a comforting fiction deployed by the weak in a doomed attempt to influence the strong.
Peter - spot on, it is. Even raising it comes across as a hopelessly weak way of grasping at straws.
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