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For a Troubled Britain, a Lesson from Japan
By Daniel McCarthy
Tuesday, 10 February 2026 08:11 AM EST
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The contrast between America's great island allies on opposite ends of the world couldn't be more drastic.
Japan has just given its commonsense conservative prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, a two-thirds supermajority in the national legislature's Lower House; her Liberal Democratic Party took the highest proportion of seats of any party since World War II.
It's an enormous vote of confidence not only in Takaichi's economic agenda but also for her willingness to get tough with China.
Beijing's mouthpieces have called Takaichi an "evil witch," with China's consul general in Osaka threatening, "the dirty neck that sticks itself in must be cut off" in response to Takaichi's indication Japan would aid Taiwan against an invasion.
Such incendiary language didn't intimidate Takaichi — nor, it turns out, Japan's voters.
Yet even as Japan was rallying to its courageous prime minister, China was inflicting humiliation on America's closest European ally.
Communist authorities in Hong Kong — which was a British colony until 1999 — have just sentenced the businessman and free-speech champion Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison.
The 78-year-old Lai, who holds British citizenship, will die behind bars under that sentence, but China isn't worried about the U.K.'s reaction as long as Keir Starmer is prime minister there.
Just last month, the British government approved Beijing's plans to build a vast new "mega-embassy" in London at the site of the former Royal Mint Court.
CNN notes that Xi Jinping has taken a personal interest in the complex and brought it up in his very first call with the then-newly elected Starmer in 2024.
Not that a larger presence for the People's Republic of China in the very heart of London is the Labour government's only recent concession:
Starmer has worked tirelessly to hand over the Chagos Islands, a British territory in the Indian Ocean, to Mauritius, an African island nation with tight connections to China.
This is no act of "decolonization."
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