Stewart McDonald is, per usual, obsessing over the wrong thing
Published in The Herald on Sunday April 21, 2024, unedited.
I wrote this after reading Neil Mackay’s Herald article, “SNP MP targeted by Chinese spies warns Scot Gov puts nation at risk with over-reliance on Beijing.” In it, McDonald’s oozes self importance, believing he is the target of spies from Beijing. He also obsesses about Chinese students at Scottish universities and Chinese wind turbines being built in Scotland. The solution seems obvious to me - I wonder why it doesn’t to Mr. McDonald.
Stewart McDonald (The Herald on Sunday, April 14) is obsessing about Chinese spies when perhaps he should be more concerned about MI5 spies who are doing all they can to keep Scotland in its UK prison.
If Mr. McDonald is genuinely concerned about malign foreign influences from countries like China, shouldn’t he be working day and night to make Scotland an independent nation?
Because if Scotland were a grown-up country and not a colonial vassal, it would be able to manage its economy, take back ownership of its land and resources from foreign governments and corporations, and create an energy and industrial policy so that it could manufacture its own wind turbines.
It could decide with which countries and on what terms to trade.
It could choose to no longer be a US lapdog and forge an independent defence policy. It could have its own immigration policy and determine how many foreign nationals should be allowed to attend Scottish universities after, that is, demand from Scottish students is satisfied.
Stewart McDonald pretends to be some kind of statesman when he’s just another run-of-the-mill colonial administrator eager to please his London masters. That’s pathetic.
I’m sick and tired of the anti-China rhetoric and fear coming from politicians, and it’s really disappointing to see the SNP and Scottish Greens join in on the fear. China is not a bad country, in fact, it’s a fantastic country and we should embrace and support it!
Yes it is more likely that Scotland is at risk of interference on many levels from less than democratic regimes which the English government aligns itself with.
However China is not a peace loving equal country, it's no better than any other country on human rights, for their own people or for example the oppression of the Uyghurs. China is definitely not squeaky clean, like so many or even most countries, but S McDonald like all of us are no doubt being watched by all sorts of nefarious oppressive pretendy democratic countries etc, especially where land and/or resources are for the taking. Here is a link hope ok to post, about China, good and bad.
https://www.amnesty.org/en/location/asia-and-the-pacific/east-asia/china/report-china/