00:00I have always been very clear. China is certainly an economic threat to this country.
00:05We know that China spies on us. We know that people are taken into secret police stations.
00:11I've given multiple speeches on that. We need to be very clear-eyed about what China wants to do.
00:16This is a country that has a thousand-year plan, not a 10-year plan or a three-week plan
00:22like the government tends to have or a three-day plan before the U-turn.
00:26They are very serious. They live in the world of reality, not in the world of fantasy.
00:32What I'm saying is that we need to take them seriously.
00:35I'm not saying we need to go to war with China, but what I'm saying is that what they want
00:39is economic dominance,
00:40and the more dominant they are, then the more susceptible we are to coercion.
00:45So if I'm prime minister of this country and I get an invite, depending on what China has been doing
00:50recently, I might go.
00:52But not when it is holding dissidents, you know, British citizens in its prisons and not releasing them.
00:58I would be going and getting those people released.
01:01Keir Starmer went to China and got humiliated, got absolutely nothing.
01:05That would not be happening with me.
01:07Yeah.
