Yellow Alert

Despite being corrupt, callous, authoritarian and prone to operatic displays of nationalistic pique, the Communist Party of the Heathen Chinee is apparently some sort of systematic challenge to British values. Accordingly, the defenders of the free world are gaming the economic consequences if plucky little Formosa should fall to Beijing. In such an event the master race would presumably feel obliged to impose a sanction or two, and our foresighted Government has thought it wise to plan ahead how to make sure that any burden falls on the little people rather than on the deserving. Doubtless it was a similar prudence that kept the scenarios short of another full-scale War on Evil™ against a power so insidiously subtle that it can get an occasional balloon to stay aloft.