A POTENTIALLY catastrophic double standard lies at the heart of Britain’s foreign and defence policy.
On the one hand, vast amounts of time, toil and taxpayers’ money have gone into supporting Ukraine in its war against Russia, partly because of the justified belief that a victory for President Putin’s regime would be a savage blow to democratic freedom in Europe.
On the other hand, far less concern is shown about China, another brutal tyranny that menaces liberties at home and abroad.
Where Russia is treated as both a pariah and a lethal foe, President Xi Jinping’sgovernment is often hailed as a …