Sky News contributor Lauren Southern says all China must do to become the “number one superpower” in the world is wait, because “we are capitulating at every turn”.

Footage from Tucker Carlson on Fox News showed a Chinese academic telling a room full of people the reason China and the US – between 1992 and 2016 – were able to settle all kinds of issues was because China has people at the “top of America’s core inner circle of power and influence”.

“They’re doing all of this in the open, they’re mocking us in the open, they are using our own tactics against us like progressive politics, we are in a trade war with them, they are in grey zone warfare at the moment making moves against us,” Ms Southern said.

“This is going to be a waiting game.

“All China has to do to become the number one superpower in the world is wait, because we are capitulating at every turn.

“They have people within our government making decisions for us, apparently, and we have people in our government who aren’t Chinese or aren’t sold out who are supporting China.”