it's hard to believe that under george osborne _ now? and david cameron, now? it's hard to believe that under- george osborne and david cameron, we were talking about this country having a golden era of trading deals with china. a lot of things happen. there is concern about china's human rights record and its treatment of some of its citizens. there is also tension over hong kong and i believe china isn't keeping its promise to retain a one nation, two systems arrangements. and also taiwan fears that china is looking at taking military action, although one might argue that the us has been almost deliberately provocative and i think it has to recognise that. but this is actually linked to russia. what happened with russia invading ukraine has made people nervous and there are fears that this might involve china trying something similar with taiwan. i don't entirely agree with this. i think china is probably not a direct threat to us the way russia is a threat to us the way russia is a threat to us the way russia is a threat to europe. fig