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| BBC station located in London, UK. ©AFP=News 1 |
China has recently banned the BBC World News Channel, which is airing in the country. Based on this, an analysis comes out as an attack on Britain, the weakest link of the anti-China alliance centered on the United States.
China’s National Broadcasting and Television Administration said on the 12th that it would not accept the request for an extension of the one-year broadcast filed by the BBC, saying that the report on China by the BBC World News was seriously violating regulations, such as harming China’s national interests .
Foreign media see China’s move as retaliation for the cancellation of the broadcasting license of China Global TV Network (CGTN), an international satellite broadcaster in China by British media regulator Ofcom earlier this month. Earlier, China suffered a conflict with the UK over reporting the BBC’s new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) and the human rights abuses of the Xinjiang Uighurs.
Even before fighting over the media, tensions between the two countries continued to rise. First of all, Britain, which was friendly to China, changed dramatically. Last year, the UK decided to withdraw Huawei, China’s largest communication equipment company, from the 5G (5G) network construction project.
He then began to criticize China’s enforcement of the Hong Kong National Security Law. From the 31st of last month, the UK has been accepting visa applications for Hong Kongers to live in the UK for five years. At a recent meeting with Japan’s foreign and defense ministers (2+2), the aircraft carrier announced his intention to dispatch the aircraft carrier to the Indo-Pacific region within this year, hinting at China’s containment.
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| Hong Kong Freedom protest held in London, UK on December 12 last year. ©AFP=News 1 |
Britain calls China’s democracy and human rights crackdown as a reason for this action. “The relationship between China and the UK has been severely weakening over Hong Kong in recent months,” the BBC said. “Over the past two years, China has systematically blocked or banned foreign media, such as expelling reporters from three US newspapers last year.” Said.
However, if you widen your eyes, you can see that the British are not the only ones to’beat China’. Due to Brexit, English-speaking countries, such as Australia and Canada, as well as the United Kingdom, which are attempting to stand alone from the European Union, are stepping up to check China in step with the United States.
Australia is a representative country in conflict with China. Last year, when Australia officially urged China to identify the cause of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19), China sanctioned imports of Australian beef, barley, wine, and coal. Last year, a Chinese-Australian anchor from the Chinese state media was suddenly detained by Chinese authorities.
A similar case took place in Canada in 2019. When Canada arrested China’s Huawei Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou to the United States on charges of violating Iranian sanctions, China also set up fire by detaining Canadians.
The United States is also quickly stepping up to empower Britain. The US State Department previously warned that the US government is taking seriously the BBC reports related to China’s crackdown on the human rights of the Xinjiang Uyghurs. (Ned Price, US State Department spokesman).
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| The Chinese flag’Oh Sung Hong’ (left) and the British flag’Union Jack’. ©AFP=News 1 |
China’s checks against the UK are also expected to increase. It is possible to impose strong sanctions by judging Britain as a weak link in the’anti-Chinese alliance’.
On the 13th, The Economist, a British weekly magazine, warned that China could impose sanctions on British companies as high as Australia. Former diplomat Charles Parton told The Economist that companies such as AstraZeneca, Jaguar Land Rover and HSBC are likely to be subject to sanctions. “China will take revenge much colder than expected.”
A column published on the 9th in the Hong Kong South China Morning Post (SCMP) pointed out that the UK has no choice but to permanently bond with the US after Brexit. The British are dreaming of a revival of the British Empire along with the’Anglosphere’ against China. “The demand for Anglosphere came from weakness and decline, not strength.” I cut it down.