so like world police style?

Yep. @Crafty @sirwoods

We can use both hard and soft power to kick start that

I disagree I don't think we need to start an empire to remain free

We need to agressively be pushing debt diplomacy abroad as well

Then die under the thumb of China. @sirwoods

can you imagine the international outrage if the uk started invading african nations to sort their shit out

Who is doing exactly what I've said.

we cant even sort our own shit out

I don't see why if anything that will be an economic burden

*Intervening* to bring a bloody, brutal civil war to an end? @Crafty

Pushing regional stability and growth.

If china gets worse you will just get cold war 2 and then we back the US

Allowing the peoples in that country to recover, grow and develop.

sounds noble on the face of it, pretty sure it's more complicated than that

We're already in cold war 2.0 @sirwoods

That's the justification we use, that's what others use @Crafty

And to an extent it will be true

it's not exactly got the best track record

this type of thing

I don't think we are in coldwar 2, I think it might be on its way but not yet

Meh, doesn't matter as long as it benefits us @Crafty

China is actively sending cyber attacks to us

Actively stealing our intellectual property

Agressively investing in the UK in key strategic sectors like energy

so in short, Little Britain > Big Britain?

Big Britain through agressive means

Empire 2.0 doesn't need to be annexation of land

It can be heavily favourable trade deals

It can be a few strategic military bases in the region

It can be political capital in countries, etc.

Sure china is inflicting but that goes on between nations all the time, it's not like they are about to steamroll Europe

Lookup the belt and road initiative @sirwoods

cant listen to nats shit, outta here

And what happens when we go yeah this is ours now china?

If they start messing with us

They're already messing with us

Then let's take their shit

And get ourselves into a better position through agressive debt diplomacy

And political influence abroad

So it's bad enough that we should start an empire but not that we can't confiscate their assets in the UK?