Can the Chinese Communist Party be held back or is all too late?

Governments come and go, dictators and bad leaders get ousted. But the Chinese Communist Party just carries on for ever and has been engaged in the most comprehensive imperialist programme not seen since the Romans (or possibly the British when we had an Empire in Queen Victoria's time). Ever since the pandemic which everyone in the world, except the Chinese Communist Party, says started in the Chinese city of Wuhan sometime towards the end of last year, we have all become more wary of China. And for good reason. There is plenty of evidence that China deliberately avoided taking measures to stop Chinese nationals from jumping onto planes and spreading the virus around the world. Northern Italy was one of the worst hit initially because large numbers of Chinese live and work in that part of the country. Beijing also made things worse by putting out a massive amount of false information claiming that the virus was everyone else's fault. Even claiming that American athletes from the US Army brought it in when they attended the Wuhan Games last autumn. Now here we are, several months later and pretty well every aspect of China's influence in the world is coming under the microscope. Here are just a few issues: Staying with or chucking out Huawei's 5G, reviewing Chinese investment in the UK's nuclear power programme, buying anything which has Made in China stamped on it, reeaximining anything which has Chinese components that might be a risk to national security. I hasten to add this cannot and must not in anyway hint at racism, it's not a question of being against the Chinese. It's about trust. Can western government trust the Chinese Communist Party to be a loyal and valued partner? Judging by the hasty change of mind going in the Boris Johnson government about allowing Huawei to take over 35 per cent of the country's 5G digital network which was agreed in Jauary, the answer is no. Boris wants to renege on that agreement as fast as possible becasue the signals intelligenfe people at GCHQ have had a rethink and worry that our national security would be at risk. Before, GCHQ said it was possible to contain the risk somehow, but ooops suddenly not anymore. But the Chinese ambassador to London has very calmly issued a WARNING that if the UK government were to consider doing any such thing there could be consequences to the whole bilateral relationship between Britain and China. Wow, and there it is. China has the UK and half the world over a barrel. There is so much Chinese investment in the UK across a huge spectrum that the ambassador's warning has real meaning. In other words, it's a real threat. And then of course there's the pledge from Boris to allow three million Hong Kongers with British nationality rights to come and live in Britain because of the harsh new security law imposed on the former British colony by Beijing (the Communist Party). In the ambassador's view (Beijing's view) that smacks of interference in another country's internal affairs, so stay away or else! Yes the Communist Party of China is riding high. And I reckon there is not a lot we in the West can do about it. Certainly not in little old Britain.