This is a world where contradictions coexist. While the SAR government is vigorously countering the slander and slander issued by the British government’s “Hong Kong Half-year Report”, Financial Secretary Paul Chan Mo-po continues his visit to London to promote the development of Hong Kong-British trade.
The SAR government can normally promote Hong Kong in London, which more or less reflects the beginning of a thaw in the relationship between the UK and Hong Kong. The premise of this thaw is that there are also signs of thaw in Sino-British relations.
Sino-British relations were once very cordial. In 2015, China launched the “One Belt, One Road” initiative and established the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. The UK was the first Western country to join. Also in this year, the then British Chancellor of the Exchequer Osborne said that the UK had “consolidated its position as China’s best partner in the West.” The British government declared in 2015 that Sino-British friendly cooperation has entered a “golden era.”
However, Sino-British relations are subject to change and are not led by the UK. Trump was elected President of the United States in 2016 and took office in 2017. In 2018, he launched a trade war against China and stirred up anti-China sentiment around the world. He initiated the issue of genocide in Xinjiang and launched sanctions on Chinese technology companies such as Huawei.
The big boss in the United States stood up and shouted, and the little brother in the United Kingdom could only respond. Since then, Sino-British relations have undergone fundamental changes. The British government has parroted China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. The UK also used Hong Kong to enact the National Security Law, opening the door of peace to Hong Kong people and absorbing Hong Kong immigration funds when the UK’s Brexit funds were being lost. In 2021, Huawei was banned from participating in the UK’s 5G infrastructure due to security concerns.
All this angered China, which sanctioned five British MPs, including Sir Smith, accusing them of spreading “lies and false information” against China.
As time goes by, after several years of anti-China play, the UK began to find that it was no longer fun. After the Russian-Ukrainian war, British inflation skyrocketed, and the lackluster British economy after Brexit was exposed. Therefore, I thought about the benefits of doing business with China, knowing that it had nothing to do with the United States.
British Foreign Minister Qi Zhanming’s visit to China on August 30 is the first step in the improvement of Sino-British relations. Qi Zhanming is the first senior British cabinet minister to visit Beijing in five years. He visited China despite the skepticism in the British political circles.
The British BBC described Qi Zhanming’s visit to China: “Will the restoration of communication in the post-golden era start a virtuous cycle?” The BBC believes that the core of all this is the basis of the British Xin Weicheng government’s recent China policy, which comes from the change in the British balance between economic interests and security concerns.
The conclusion is that China and Britain will continue to quarrel, but business will also follow suit. What China is now engaging in is an international united front, uniting all forces that can be united and targeting only one principal contradiction.
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Lu Yongxiong
2023-09-22 16:00:00
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