Lin Lan in the Global Times ridicules the deployment of the British carrier strike group in the South China Sea. The group is worthless, the article says, and it is built for nothing but to coordinate with the US. The UK has new imperial ambitions (global Britain), but its navy is in shambles (only one out of five destroyers is operational and was just beaten up in the Black Sea by the Russians); the country is in a recession; one-fifth of its pensioners are poor; and the deployment of a naval squad in the Asia-Pacific will prove a bottomless pit that will suck money and aggravate the economic crisis. China will make clear to Washington that Britain will be punished if it provokes China. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202107/1229701.shtml