Families face new cash crunch if China invades Taiwan, warns top Tory... as Nvidia honeypot 'lays bare Beijing's lust for tech supremacy'

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Shadow defence minister David Reed attacked the slow pace of rearming the UK's military and intelligence apparatus.

Published: 12:26 GMT, 12 November 2026 | Updated: 13:38 GMT, 12 November 2026

Labour's weakness in the face of aggressive Chinese expansionism could see the British public get hammered by a massive cost-of-living surge if Beijing succeeds in annexing Taiwan, a top Tory warns today.

Shadow defence minister David Reed attacked the slow pace of rearming the UK's military and intelligence apparatus and the Government's unwillingness to take a hard line with the Asian superpower.

Taiwan is a major power in electronics and produces 90 per cent of the world's most advanced semi conductor chips, used in smartphones and computers.

Additionally the Taiwan Strait is one of the world's busiest shipping routes and China's repeated threats to seize an island it considers part of its territory is causing major alarm bells to ring in the West.

Writing for the Mail today Mr Reed said the UK needed to take the threat more seriously, despite pressing threats closer to home, with control of Taiwan and the strait giving it 'unimaginable control of any nation's economy'.

The former Royal Marine and special forces operative said the Nvidia 'honeypot' scandal in the US, where the founder of the eponymous tech firm admitted an affair with an alleged Chinese spy, showed the lengths Beijing was willing to go to to achieve global supremacy.

Shadow defence minister David Reed attacked the slow pace of rearming the UK's military and intelligence apparatus and the government's unwillingness to take a hard line with China

China refuses to talk to Taiwan's president Lai Ching-te, saying he is a 'separatist,' and its military operates around the island on a daily basis

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