China Risks Economic Collapse With Taiwan Invasion Plans-UK Official

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China's economy would be left in tatters if it took military action against Taiwan, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Monday. Speaking on the margins of the Conservative Party's annual conference in Manchester in northern England, Cleverly said the Foreign Office's approach toward China was pragmatic, and that security would trump economics if the two ever became incompatible. The United Kingdon's top diplomat drew criticism from some corners of the Tory party in August when he became the most senior British official to visit Beijing in five years. Like Washington, London finds itself in the middle of a soft...