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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Dan Sabbagh and Amy Hawkins

China wants to subordinate west, US politician claims on UK visit

Mike Gallagher pictured on Westminster Bridge
Mike Gallagher said China’s goal was to ‘render us subordinate, humiliated and irrelevant on the world stage’. Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian

Beijing wants to “subordinate and humiliate” the west, according to the Republican chair of a newly created China committee in Congress who is leading a delegation of hawkish US politicians on a two-day trip to the UK.

Mike Gallagher argued that China, under President Xi Jinping, believed in “the inevitable demise of capitalism”, and said he hoped to better understand how far British politicians of all parties shared his committee’s concerns.

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