Originally Posted by
SASless
It depends upon what the Chinese show up with I should think.
If they get very snotty about it all....it might take a bit more than is tagging along for the ride currently.
Surely the Chinese are smart enough to know where to draw the line....so to speak.
They do not want to trigger a genuine shooter up....yet we better hope or it could get messy quick.
It would take a shooting incident of some kind to precipitate a fundamental reappraisal of how the western nations deal with China.
As long as China can count on a half trillion dollar annual trade surplus with the western powers, it cannot be prevented from expanding its influence globally.
Perhaps HMG is conscious of that.