Democracy Damaged Amid CCP Virus, China’s Threat Highlighted Says Britains Defence Staff Chief

Democracy Damaged Amid CCP Virus, China’s Threat Highlighted Says Britains Defence Staff Chief
Chief of the Defence Staff, General Sir Nick Carter visits Number 10 Downing Street in London on March 5, 2020. Peter Summers/Getty Images
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The CCP virus crisis has both highlighted the nature of China’s threat to the West and drawn democracies around the world toward authoritarianism, Britain’s Chief of Defence Staff, General Nick Carter has said.

The pandemic has served as a reminder that the modus operandi of “our authoritarian rivals,” has “diversified markedly,” Carter said in his annual Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Christmas lecture published on Thursday.