China’s ‘useful idiots’ keep their honours
Ministers like to talk a good game on China. But, as the Commons witnessed just two weeks ago, all too often there's a very different reality when it comes to calling out Beijing's abuses. After the Foreign Office declined to describe China's atrocities in Xinjiang as 'genocide,' now it's time for the Department for Education to turn the other cheek. For universities minister Michelle Donelan has ducked the chance to call on Britain's seats of learning to cut their ties with apparatchiks of the communist regime.
