“It would be completely misguided for Britain to view China as a competitor… what do China and Britain compete with?”
The British government should not “overestimate its impact on the global scene,” spokesperson for the [Communist Party of China], Victor Gao, tells [British propagandist].
Translation: You’re too irrelevant for us to even view you as a competitor. You produce nothing.
They excelled at generations of cultural bitterness toward a world that threw off their colonial yokes and started to heal from all the slaughter their empire caused.
Yes, this includes shit they pulled with China, especially when pushing opium.