The sun set on the British Empire long ago.
Now China is setting on it, too.
For while poet Rudyard Kipling famously observed that “East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet,” Beijing and Britain are meeting — on U.K. soil — with the Chinese as conquerors.
So laments The Telegraph’s Sherelle Jacobs, who warned in a September 11 title that “Britain has already surrendered to China’s war on Western civilisation.” But here’s the kicker:
Much the same can be said about the United States.
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