Or if the Welsh were told their language and poetry were banned and must no longer be taught in schools. It’s as though Xi’s China is now seen as simply too big, too economically powerful and too militarily threatening to influence, let alone contain or control. Perhaps his ethnic unity law may ultimately prove a step too far – as it certainly would in Britain. Xi, no friend of the west, may be morphing into an outright enemy while all eyes are on Iran, Gaza and Ukraine. Symbolically if not yet physically, a dangerously unconstrained Xi is shutting the door on peaceful coexistence at home and abroad.