Cankao Xiaoxi (Reference News) – China’s largest paper by circulation – recently ran with the headline: 'British politician indulging in bygone colonial fantasy'
, or Global Times, said that the British foreign secretary, Jeremy Hunt, had made a “toothless threat against China”, taunting that “nobody believes the UK will send its only aircraft carrier to China’s coast … this is not the 19th century when the Opium War broke out”.
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