The Minister of Treasury Australia has asked the State Treasury and foreign investment review committees to cooperate with other stakeholders to review foreign investment projects in the fields of lithium and rare earth.Although he did not explain that the Chinese project was the target of the censorship, the Minister of Resources in Australia once pointed out that China ’s dominant position in these fields has made the supply chain weak.

(Bloomberg, Sydney) Australia will launch more powerful censorships for key products for electric vehicles and clean energy, such as lithium and rare earth.At the same time, Britain decided to stop installing the monitoring camera made in China in a "sensitive place".

The Australian State Treasury Minister Chammerus, on Friday (November 25), said at a meeting in Sydney that he had asked the State Treasury and the Foreign Investment Centers to cooperate with other stakeholders to review in the fields of lithium and rare earths.Foreign investment projects.

Bloomberg quoted him: "We have to strengthen investment projects that are obviously in line with our national interests." He did not name the Chinese project as the target of the censorship, but the Australian Minister of Resources Madelein Kim Ben Month said that China is inThe dominant position in these areas has inherent weaknesses that will appear when the supply chain centralization.

This move is regarded as the footsteps of Australia to follow the United States and add the leading positions that restrict China's key metal areas.After U.S. President Biden took action to restrict China's influence on the key supply chain, the Canadian government has allowed three Chinese -funded companies to withdraw capital from three lithium miners.

In Australia, Ganfeng Lithium, China Lithium Industry Corporation, currently holds 50%of Mount Marion Lithium Mine; Tianqi Lithium has refined facilities in Kwinana and holds the worldGreenbushes, the largest lithium ore; Shenghe Resources purchased 19.9%of Peak Rare Earths, which was headquartered in Febus in February this year.

Britain banned the installation of Chinese production monitoring equipment in the "sensitive place"

At the same time, the British government departments also received instructions on Thursday that they must stop installing the monitoring camera made in China at the "sensitive place".

Daoden, the Minister of the British Cabinet Office, said in a written statement submitted to the parliament that the decision was obtained after reviewing the "current and future security risks related to the installation of visual monitoring systems in the future".

Big Brother Watch, the British privacy protection group, revealed that most British public institutions use CCTV cameras made by Chinese Enterprise Hikvision or Dahua.

In July of this year, 67 members of the UK, on the grounds that the products of these two companies infringed the human rights of Xinjiang Uygur, urged the government to ban or use the monitoring equipment they made.

The latest instructions in the UK have not completely blocked the two companies, but it is stipulated that such cameras should not connect to the core network of government departments. Each department should also consider changing related equipment.Share the "video surveillance system" of the company.

China Supervision and Control Equipment Merchants responded: Unable to pass user data

A spokesperson for Hikvision responded: "We cannot transmit data from end users to third parties, and do not manage end users' databases, let alone sell cloud storage in the UK."

The spokesman said that the company would "seek emergency contact with the ministers to understand this decision."