To: TobagoJack who wrote (148376 ) 5/8/2019 3:22:09 PM From: philv Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 217942 China's battle is actually with the US who instigated the problems, not with Canada. But Canada is an easy target, and China must to show it's muscle. But of course, regardless of how big China is, Canada cannot change it's course. Canada is the US lap dog, as everyone knows. China should be doing to the US what it has been doing to Canada, but of course, the fight would be more equal. Picking on the Canadian Chihuahua seems a bit unbecoming. Meantime the US continues to pile on the pressure: 'Would the Iron Lady allow China to control the internet?': US secretary of state Mike Pompeo takes swipe at Theresa May shortly after their meeting as he warns Britain not to give Huawei access to UK's 5G network US secretary of state Mike Pompeo has issued a humiliating warning to the UK that it could lose access to vital American intelligence if it does not distance itself from Chinese tech firm Huawei - before taking an apparent sideswipe at Theresa May. After meeting Mrs May on a visit to London (pictured today at Number 10, right), and in a stinging criticism of the Prime Minister, Donald Trump's top diplomat invoked the memory of 'Iron Lady' Margaret Thatcher (inset), asking: 'Would she have allowed China to control to control the internet of the future?'. It came just hours after he had stood alongside Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt to praise the 'special relationship' between the UK and the UK. Giving the Margaret Thatcher Lecture for the CPS think tank at Lancaster House in London (left), with Hunt looking on, he said: 'Ask yourself: would the Iron Lady be silent when China violates the sovereignty of nations through corruption or coercion?'. Washington is urging allies to keep Huawei out of sensitive infrastructure programmes, citing fears that the company may provide a route for China's communist regime to spy on the West. dailymail.co.uk