Nigel Farage has wasted little time identifying a new enemy. On 1 January , he tweeted: “Stopping China is the next big battle to fight.” This, he wrote weeks earlier, will be “a theme that I intend to pursue throughout 2021”.
Exactly what Farage has to add to the debate on China is rather difficult to understand through his hyperbole. He tends to speak about Beijing in cliché and generality, as if expecting the reader to know more about the topic than him – perhaps not difficult as he had next to nothing to say about China up until 2020. Perhaps this is because trade with China was intimated as one of the alternatives once Britain left the EU. Or he just didn’t care.
