Where does Britain draw the line with Saudi Arabia and China? | World news | The Guardian

Where does Britain draw the line with Saudi Arabia and China? | World news | The Guardian:

"Did you notice that the Saudi ambassador to London has stamped his foot to warn that relations between our two countries may suffer if we don’t stop talking about them in the abusive tone recently adopted?

You can see Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz’s point. Up to a point anyway. The British establishment has spent most of the past week kowtowing to Xi Jinping, authoritarian president of nominally communist China, a regime whose past excesses against its own people makes the House of Saud look like a coven of Guardian readers. Kowtow is a Chinese word, I seem to remember – not necessarily pejorative either.

But governments all over the world have to deal with people they don’t approve of. I wouldn’t be surprised if Saudis and Chinese who know their history don’t harbour a few reservations about pasty-faced Europeans who have done them harm in the past. It doesn’t stop them using some of their spare cash to buy up swaths of Britain."



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