The British government is reluctant to antagonize the Chinese regime, even via the pages of a former Tory minister's memoirs. President Xi Jingping presides over appalling human rights abuses and charts a sinister path to global domination, while the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office does not want to tweak the dragon's tail - even via the pages of a former health secretary's manuscript. Publicly, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has begun acknowledging what defence experts have long been warning, which is that the Chinese state emphatically does not wish us well. This is a regime that systematically steals our trade and technology secrets, has infiltrated our critical national infrastructure, and has stretched its toxic tentacles all over our universities. According to MI5, it poses a "game-changing threat" to the UK. Sunak recently used his first foreign policy speech to declare that the "golden era" of relations between our two countries is over. Unfortunately, the panjandrums in the Foreign Office have yet to

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