Heading for a friendly business-seeking visit to China, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed he need not choose between his hosts in the communist dictatorship and his ally, the United States.

This is worse than misguided, for it applies a veneer of impartiality to an administration that, in truth, sides with the tyrants against Britain’s and America’s interests. It is tellingly odd to adopt an even-handed approach toward a tyranny that only five years ago tore up a treaty with Britain so it could suppress freedom in Hong Kong. Britain’s recent experience is of China’s barefaced lying and betrayal.

So why did Starmer recently approve China building its biggest European embassy in the heart of London? It will put a massive hostile spying operation 3 feet from cables transmitting money transactions into and out of London, the biggest........

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